threshing

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

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

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023

She downloaded the book’s audio version and listened to it as she drove her 25-ton John Deere combine through her fields, reaping, threshing and winnowing hundreds of bushels.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

Kansas’s title defense, which ended with Bill Self unable to coach as he recovers from a heart procedure, included 28 victories before it ran headlong into Arkansas’ threshing machine of athleticism.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023

Two days after Traft’s visit, Karl and some other neighbors rumbled onto my place to start threshing.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson