thresh
Example Sentences
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I left word with the maid that we were on no account to be disturbed and we sat down to thresh the whole thing out.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017
This Sunday and next also offer the museum’s Matzo Factory, at 1, 1:45 and 2:30 p.m., in which children can thresh and grind wheat and bake their own matzos to take home for Passover.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2016
Q: Does he thresh things out with you?
From US News • Jun. 5, 2015
Winter brought the people indoors to weave yarn into fabric, sew clothing, thresh grain, and keep the fires going.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Karl says that with this heat, I wrote to my uncle, my grain will be ready to thresh in about two weeks.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
