threshing

Example Sentences

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A short walk away, a threshing machine spews clouds of dust and chaff as wheat pours out in a steady stream, rattling into worn brown sacks at farmers' feet.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

It takes a village, not a threshing machine, to complete the harvest of pounds of watermelon seeds that will fill the simple, white packets sold by Turtle Tree Seed.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2023

Farmers have already completed the 2023 wheat harvest, threshing 21.94 million metric tons.

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023

And all the time while they were waiting they could hear the sharks threshing around in the water below them.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl