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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

At the farm, he leaves a foot between rows of Allium to allow for easy weeding with the six-inch blade of a stirrup hoe.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 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

After I had gone through the sheet music twice, I moved to the glassware and then the records; Henry bought a garden hoe for twenty-five cents.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Behind her hundreds of people work side by side, hacking into the rocky ground with hoes and shovels.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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

One account said the Russians paid the Kashia Pomo people already living there “three blankets, two axes, three hoes, and a miscellaneous assortment of beads” for the use of the land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

In scorching heat, they attacked solid ground with pickaxes and hoes before carefully tucking the seedlings into the earth.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

Telemakhos and the herdsman scraped the packed earth floor with hoes, but made the women carry out all blood and mire.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

"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

The highway is quiet enough for new shops like Mr. Qadim’s and for farmers’ fields that can be hoed all the way up to the highway’s edge without fear of being shelled or shot.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

Workers hoed endlessly to control the weeds and nipped small shoots and flowers to force the growth of larger leaves.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The long grass had to be scythed and hoed under.

From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park

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

The corn needed hoeing, and Lurvy didn’t find time to hoe it.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White