mowing

Example Sentences

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Now with a young family, everyday tasks like mowing the lawn were accompanied by excruciating pain.

From BBC

They exist only for the purpose of mowing down large numbers of people quickly and have no relationship to the "self-defense" claims of the gun rights lobby.

From Salon

This seed mix requires infrequent mowing — after midsummer when the wildflowers bloom — but is a “great compromise where a lawnlike aesthetic is needed or desired.”

From Seattle Times

Smith, who umpires about 150 games a year, was selected to work this year’s Little League Softball World Series, but he tore his Achilles’ tendon — not umpiring, but stepping in a ditch while mowing grass.

From New York Times

Turning on to a side street, Trammell abruptly pulled over and leaped out of the car to hug a man mowing his lawn ahead of a thunderstorm.

From Washington Post