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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

Seconds later, Ryan is seen in a teal tracksuit striding toward the deputy holding a hula hoe, a type of garden tool that has a metal D-shaped fixture on the end for digging into dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 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

“You’d have a really big row to hoe and you would have a big fuss inside the military if you chose not to follow a presidential order.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023

All Miss Celia does now is hoe up the yard and plant more fancy flowers.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

The farmworkers wanted long-handled hoes, because it hurt their backs to kneel down all day.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

Instead, fields were always tilled by hand-held sticks or hoes, and seeds were planted individually by hand and not scattered as whole handfuls.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"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

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

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

Dustfinger had often entertained the maids as they hoed the beds.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

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

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

Like slaves and servants, poor free women performed hard field labor like hoeing and reaping.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

"I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2016

And I understand how working and hoeing are dancing; how peasant clothes are golden, as king’s clothes are golden; how one of the dancers is always a man and the other a woman.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston