threshing

Example Sentences

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Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

Farmers have already completed the 2023 wheat harvest, threshing 21.94 million metric tons.

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023

She downloaded the book’s audio version and listened to it as she drove her 25-ton John Deere combine through her fields, reaping, threshing and winnowing hundreds of bushels.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

Adelaide connects socially with men who work the land as cowboys or on threshing crews.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

Samuel should have been rich from his well rig and his threshing machine and his shop, but he had no gift for business.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck