harrow

Example Sentences

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Track maintenance will then harrow the track to release the compactness and return it to its regular consistency for racing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Alcée rode his horse under the shelter of a side projection where the chickens had huddled and there were plows and a harrow piled up in the corner.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

In her diary entry for July 15, 1944, Anne Frank wrote words that would harrow and challenge generations not yet born: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2019

Called DISCOL, the simple trial involved raking the centre of a roughly 11-square-kilometre plot in the Pacific Ocean with an 8-metre-wide implement called a plough harrow.

From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019

And when the plowing was done and the worms had all disappeared, either eaten or safely underground, Mr. Fitzgibbon came back with the harrow, breaking down the furrows, and turned them all up again.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien