gardening

Example Sentences

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When I tell The Dog my gardening ambition, she cocks her head to one side.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

So she traded the Instagram-worthy, slime-making and sensory bucket activities that required hours of prep and started enlisting her kids’ help with household chores and gardening.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

He taped a sign to a tree near their tent advertising his gardening services.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

Sculptor Maddy Inez, granddaughter of Betye Saar, crafts a series of ceramic vessels — each an ode to different plants brought over during the transatlantic slave trade — reframing gardening as an act of resistance.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Now she had to do all the gardening, all the water carrying, all the hunting, and still find time to cut down the muktva tree and carve it into the shape of a boat.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer