furrow
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The evidence points to more intensive farming methods, such as ridge and furrow ploughing to limit erosion and more focused gardening practices.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026
"So I tried to take a pretty free hand with it and kind of plow my own furrow."
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
Harris is exceptionally good at the furrow, the side-eye, the chin stroke, and the silent, syrup-scented “Bless his heart.”
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024
“You never want a young audience to go see a movie and furrow their brow thinking, ‘Who is this person?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
So he made a good, deep straight furrow with his foot pointing exactly to Mount Pire.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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Bites often leave punctures or furrows in bone, but disease, insects, weathering, and erosion can create similar features.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
"If the baiter hasn't followed quickly enough behind the seeder, the mice are coming along at night and eating the seed out of the furrows," she says.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
“Hamlin,” read a sign, and for miles in both directions were furrows and beds with only dirt or scrub brush or dead trees.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
My face has not ignored the passage of time, but recorded it with scars, lines, furrows, and erosions.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Julian Hoffman’s remarkable new memoir begins with birds: “The sky was a harbor all of a sudden. Wherever you looked, wings furrowed wakes in the air.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The people in charge up there need to take action," the 59-year-old continued, his brow deeply furrowed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
With eyebrows furrowed, she leaned into the decks, spinning an operatic techno mashup from the turntables and orchestrating the ebb and flow of fans’ bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Back in 2015, when I lived there, even a mention of a tuna melt drew a furrowed brow.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025
Drew’s brow was furrowed in anger, and his cheeks were red.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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Now, some clients 30 and older are seeking out dermatologists and aestheticians with nursing degrees who can help them maintain a slight patina of wrinkles—at least enough for furrowing and raising the brows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
There's no slight furrowing of the brow or regret in her voice, nothing that could be read as disappointment.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2024
I also often found myself furrowing my brow whenever Rorem would talk about his own music.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2022
Mr Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron, a key player in attempts to broker peace in Ukraine, stayed close to each other, with Mr Macron furrowing his brow in one particular intense chat.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2022
Delia asked, a frown of disbelief furrowing between her brows.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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