Examples of thresher in a Sentence
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The problem is that threshers brawl, often leaping ten feet in the air during the battle.
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Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
The Atlantic Shark Institute monitors great white, mako, thresher, porbeagle, blue, spinner, and blacktip.
—Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
And on Wednesday, the Finnish Confederation of Industries sponsored an all-day webinar with Ukrainian officials so companies could show off their wastewater treatment plants, transformers, threshers and prefabricated housing.
—Liz Alderman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
More than a dozen sharks are known to live in Gulf of Mexico including the bonnethead, scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, tiger, lemon, bull, shortfin mako, sandbar, thresher, dusky, silky, Atlantic sharpnose, blacknose, finetooth, spinner and blacktip.
—Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2021
Jane Poynter, who lost the tip of her finger in a rice thresher, married a fellow crew member.
—Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
What’s a parent supposed to do with that pro tip, especially when a child routinely runs your sense of self through a thresher?
—Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
The stalks are then cut and sent through a thresher to separate the grain from what is now essentially hay.
—New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
Residents applaud cleaner conditions; anglers say they are unfairly being singled out Local fishermen say the best fish, from yellowtail to thresher sharks, can be found at the end of Imperial Beach’s iconic 1,500-foot pier.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
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Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
The Atlantic Shark Institute monitors great white, mako, thresher, porbeagle, blue, spinner, and blacktip.
—Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
And on Wednesday, the Finnish Confederation of Industries sponsored an all-day webinar with Ukrainian officials so companies could show off their wastewater treatment plants, transformers, threshers and prefabricated housing.
—Liz Alderman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
More than a dozen sharks are known to live in Gulf of Mexico including the bonnethead, scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, tiger, lemon, bull, shortfin mako, sandbar, thresher, dusky, silky, Atlantic sharpnose, blacknose, finetooth, spinner and blacktip.
—Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2021
Jane Poynter, who lost the tip of her finger in a rice thresher, married a fellow crew member.
—Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
What’s a parent supposed to do with that pro tip, especially when a child routinely runs your sense of self through a thresher?
—Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
The stalks are then cut and sent through a thresher to separate the grain from what is now essentially hay.
—New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
Residents applaud cleaner conditions; anglers say they are unfairly being singled out Local fishermen say the best fish, from yellowtail to thresher sharks, can be found at the end of Imperial Beach’s iconic 1,500-foot pier.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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in the 13th century
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“Thresher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thresher. Accessed 3 Oct. 2023.
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thresher
noun
thresh·er
ˈthrash-ər 
ˈthresh-
1
a
: a person who threshes
2
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