How to Use hoe in a Sentence

hoe

1 of 2 noun

• Pull weeds out by the roots or cut off the top growth with a hoe.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
• Pull weeds out by the roots or cut off the top growth with a hoe.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
• On a sunny day, grab a sharp hoe and get rid of them.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2025
• Grab a hoe or get down on your hands and knees to pull weeds out by the root.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2022
• Once the planting was done, out came the hoe to cut down the weeds.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
• The plows and hoes will have to wait — the search for love has begun.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Feb. 2026
• Pull them promptly or remove them with a hoe.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2026
• Better yet, use a hoe to whack them off just below the soil line.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 2 Mar. 2018
• Then plunge the blades of your shovels and hoes into the sand, et voila!
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• Use a Cobrahead hoe or hand pull weeds by the root.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
• The hoe and hand weeding will have to continue to be used there.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2026
• As the platform moves, hauled by a back hoe, tubes in front are deflated.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 27 Apr. 2017
• Prepare the ground with a hoe and rake up the last of the winter leaves and needles.
  — Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• As the platform moves, hauled by a back hoe, the tubes in front will be deflated.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 13 June 2017
• With a small, one-handed hoe, a planter opened a hole in the wet earth, which parted with a squelch.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• Weeds growing in beds can also be killed by hand removal or killing them with a push-pull hoe.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• Use a stirrup hoe to cut off annual weeds just below the soil.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2026
• For larger gardens, maybe a taller blade or stirrup hoe would be a good tool to have on hand.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
• Those who used to scrape a living from the soil with a wooden hoe start driving tractors.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Land managers can also send in hand crews to take down shrubs with loppers, hoes and chainsaws.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
• To hand-weed more efficiently, always work when the soil is wet; use a hoe if the soil is dry.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
• Speaking of opening doors, that big aluminum rake or your old hoe in your shed might come in handy to pull snow off roofs.
  — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Chamberland suggests that the best way to go about it is with a hula hoe, rake or weed whacker.
  — Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
• Secure with a rubber band and place in your hoes at night to soak up lingering moisture and smells.
  — Dwyer Frame, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
• Police geared up and stormed the compound, using a hoe to knock the padlock off a door inside.
  — Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
• The neutral hoe cakes do little to quell the burn from this sauce duo, which threatens to overpower.
  — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2017
• Handheld aerators are pushed into the ground with some help from a foot, much like a pitchfork or hoe.
  — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2020
• Easy to keep within bounds if needed, the tiny new plants can be dislodged with a hoe or garden trowel.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2022
• Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
• Use a sharp hoe to cut off intruders; pulling or digging weeds up can damage the onions' shallow roots.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2018

hoe

2 of 2 verb

• The garden has to be hoed.
• She was hoeing in the garden all day.
• Wayward rhizomes that pop up as new plants can be hoed or chopped.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2025
• That’s a tough row to hoe in this new era of data center bidding wars.
  — Phoebe Liu, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• My first job at 14 was hoeing on a tree nursery, all day, five days a week.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018
• The weeds can be pulled, hoed or treated with herbicides that permit use near trees.
  — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2026
• Then a tall, solemn Mexican appeared, hoe in hand.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
• Weeds are easy to hand-pull or hoe out when they're freshly sprouted, and their leaves and roots are still young and tender.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026
• That leaves advocates such as Taddese and Berhe with a tough row to hoe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2019
• This can be done by hand-pulling, hoeing, or digging out a perennial weed with a garden knife.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
• Other than this is going to be a tough road to hoe for Brian Flores.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Opener Gordie Brown had a tough row to hoe, with an audience eager for the main event.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
• The new director of the nation's top public health institute is looking at a tough row to hoe.
  — Star Tribune, 14 Feb. 2021
• Also, readers should know that Apple faces a long, hard row to hoe in getting websites and apps to sign on to this.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
• During the war years, dandelions were grown in neat rows allowing farmers to hoe between lines of the plants.
  — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
• Fortunately, these seedlings are easy to hoe away and once taken down to the soil don't regenerate.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
• But perennial weeds will often resprout from their below-ground parts, and that makes hoeing a poor control for them.
  — NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• The post-op row, however, is proving tough to hoe for a small business owner used to putting in hours well beyond overtime.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2026
• And don’t tell In De Goot that hard rock/metal bands have an especially hard row to hoe.
  — Katherine Turman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2022
• The wineries of Oregon’s northern Willamette Valley have long hoed their own path.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Maintain Dig in blood and bone meal along with compost once the soil dries out a little (to prevent clods); wait for weed sprouts to follow, then hoe them in.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• There’s concern he’ll get lost in the shuffle some weeks, and being a rookie receiver isn’t an easy row to hoe amid the demands of a normal season.
  — Cory Bonini, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2020
• In 1977, summer days were hot, especially when Kelly hoed corn in the fields, but nights were cool.
  — The Marshall Project, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• This isn't just standing there watering the flowers, but weeding, digging, hoeing, raking and planting.
  — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 28 Dec. 2017
• When pigweed is young, hoeing is often all that is needed to kill it, but due to the deep taproot, established older plants are difficult to remove.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
• As a package, the Shelby Charger has hoed a long row from its 1982 fall debut as a crude but effective boy racer.
  — Jean Lindamood, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
• What’s different in 2018 is that most of the smaller Oscar contenders — and even some of the bigger ones — have found tough rows to hoe at the box office.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
• So yes, digging, raking, hoeing, weeding, and planting all fit into the functional exercise category.
  — Kimberly Garrison, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
• One morning this week, Markowski watched workers hoeing the rich soil between rows of tobacco beneath acres of tenting on his family's West Suffield farm.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 15 June 2017
• The $10 general admission during the Lilac Festival on weekends includes petting zoo, lilac maze, hoe down & jug band shows, lawn games, and lilac viewing.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026