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Recent Examples of furrow
Noun
This creates an intricate network of microscopic cracks that, in addition to visible furrows, help retain the water elephants douse themselves in to stay cool.—
Clare Watson,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Feb. 2026 The balks and furrows, left undisturbed, had other uses too.—Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
Verb
In some pockets, 25-feet-deep cracks furrow the ground, a result of an overdraft of groundwater from the bank of the earth.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026 At 88, the legendary artist, dressed in a black smock, was filmed walking through the eroded sculptural features of the badlands, her face furrowed by age, her eyes still blazing.—
John Burnett,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for furrow
Setting is important in keeping this area crease-free all day too, so that redness doesn’t peek through.
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Alanna Martine Kilkeary,
Glamour,
15 Aug. 2026
That’s the promise of Vuori’s silky-soft performance material, which is designed to naturally shed creases and also offers four-way stretch and moisture-wicking properties.
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Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Aug. 2026
SanDisk, Seagate, and Western Digital take a huge percentage of their profits and plow them back into buybacks.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
16 Aug. 2026
Janse uses no-till farming on his fields — not plowing the soil, planting crops to cover the ground year-round and adding organic matter — to help cope with the whims of the weather as climate change triggers more extremes.
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