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Because of TV streaming platforms and other factors, he said, "in my take of things, it's going to be a very rough road to hoe now."

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025

Family, activists and observers displayed a five-foot-long hula hoe, a type of gardening tool that has a metal D-shaped fixture on the end for digging into dirt, that Gainer held when he was shot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

"This will be a hard row to hoe, given that this same jury is daily receiving new evidence that the defendant, outside the courtroom, continues to spread the lie undeterred," Ms Jones said.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024

I got the transcripts from the hearings and basically they said "This will kill jobs. This will destroy agriculture, if you create a long-handled hoe."

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

She took up a hoe instead, and began to put every square inch of her sandy two-acre rented lot under cultivation: peanuts, sweet potatoes, and four dozen kinds of flowers.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Rescuers used what tools they could scrounge — shovels, hoes, pickaxes, their bare hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

It can turn a century-old maker of back hoes and mining trucks into a hot tech stock.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

Within days of arrival, they typically head to the fields, sometimes using hoes and shovels or picking crops by hand.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

Officers were seen using rakes and hoes, strimmers and a small excavator to clear paths through the scrub on a nearby slope - the sound of machinery at work audible in the remote area.

From BBC ● May 25, 2023

I looked out over the field at the black men, the backs of their shirts stained with sweat, bent over their hoes chopping weeds among the cotton plants.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

"But it's temporary," she sighed, standing barefoot in her freshly hoed soil.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

The Renegades hoed a tougher road, squeaking into the playoffs in the final week with a 4-6 record.

From Washington Times ● May 10, 2023

African American slaves plowed, planted, hoed, picked, and “ginned” most of this valuable crop.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Santa paced the room, ho-hoed and hoed some more, dished the presents out one by one, built the tension terrifically, eventually stopped in front of me and my new best mate.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 25, 2017

We heaved and we hoed and we got nowhere.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Among the strategies Weller recommended are inter-row hoeing, which helps suppress weeds; thermal weeding, which uses heat to kill weeds; and bio-herbicides, which use microorganisms for weed control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024

The last stretch of the journey to Cynthia takes me along a dirt track, past meandering cattle, a man hoeing his vegetable patch, and groups of women and children returning from church.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

The Education Department has been working to fix these programs by retroactively giving qualified borrowers more credit for time spent in public service and hoeing through a backlog of paperwork, but it could do more.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2022

A detailed analysis of five gardening activities — digging, hoeing, raking, troweling and weeding — found that gardening uses a variety of both upper- and lower-body muscles.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

It reminds me of home, the way the field hands would sing during the worst of the work, the hard things like hoeing or tilling.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland