hoeing

present participle of hoe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoeing
Verb
  • Fall color doesn't have to mean a bunch of blowing and raking.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Operations include tractors pulling raking machines, supporting crews of laborers who pick up litter and empty trash cans by hand and beach sweepers who clear paths for pedestrians and bike trail users.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The fragrance of dry grass mingled in the air with the dust kicked up by a tractor tilling in the distance.
    Elena Valeriote, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Mother Ezumi then called out the names of four other Sisters who would remain on the campus with the junior novices as a faculty skeleton crew, with the former attending to school administration and the latter engaged in their customary truck patch tilling.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In professional settings, this may look like a team publicly agreeing to a course of action, but privately listing all of the roadblocks in the way of success.
    Lindsay Phillips, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Dutch journalists, while investigating Friedrich Kadgien's time spent in Argentina, discovered the painting in an online real estate listing that showed the artwork hanging in Patricia Kadgien's living room.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Hoeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoeing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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