How to Use harvest in a Sentence

harvest

1 of 2 noun

• It is time for the harvest.
• The beginning of the harvest varies from year to year.
• We had enormous harvests of corn this year.
• They prayed for a bountiful harvest.
• The flow of water sweeps the harvest to the back of the net.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• In the mural, the abundance of the harvest surrounds the farmer.
  — Camille Padilla Dalmau and Frances Medina, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2023
• The smoke can start to slow down the rate of crop growth and delay the harvest, said Williams.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2023
• Each year, in the late fall, the Sámi harvest a portion of the herd.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Bring a rope and tarp to move the tree from the harvest area to your vehicle.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The first were known as the rains that wash away the ashes from fields cleared after the harvest.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• There were still many apples left to pick before the end of the harvest.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Follow this guide to make sure your onion harvest lasts for months in your pantry.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Apr. 2023
• The winery was built in 2016, and the first harvest and vintage took place the following year.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
• The lights featured 20% more red light, which causes plants to grow faster and yield more harvests.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2024
• The other three types may be a blend of different harvest years.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2023
• Complete the harvest theme with burlap and kraft paper accents and fresh herbs.
  — Molly Miller, House Beautiful, 29 July 2023
• Crawfish are often farmed alongside rice in soupy fields that are drained over the summer for the rice harvest.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Those busy bees produced 40 pounds of honey for their first harvest.
  — Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• The lack of rainfall has continued in 2023, which bodes poorly for this year’s harvest.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2023
• That ruling was expanded to the harvest of shellfish in 1993.
  — Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks The Seattle Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 31 July 2023
• With the farm, the widow and mother of four could make up to 6 million rupiah (around $386) in one month from her year-round harvests.
  — Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 8 Dec. 2023
• Last year, the harvest was a formidable eight tons of acorns and nuts — enough to produce 1.5 million seedlings.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• One of the many attractions of visiting the French regions of Switzerland in autumn is the wine harvest.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
• In Grasse, the jasmine harvest lasts from August to October.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The harvest began in August, about a month behind schedule.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• People used cheese to divine all sorts of things: who committed a crime, whether the year would bring a fruitful harvest, and how a child’s life would turn out.
  — Jennifer Billock, Saveur, 16 Nov. 2023
• Without a lot of rain, and soon, the current drought and heat will knock the 2023 harvest down to similar levels—and global stocks will dwindle.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2023
• Right Now Brazil, the world’s largest sugar supplier, is still going strong with its harvests.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
• The best time to start planning an edible harvest is in the early spring, so use these pro tips to set yourself up for success.
  — Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• Park explains that because the leaves are picked from the first harvest of the year, the matcha is more flavorful and nutrient-rich and the color is more vibrant.
  — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 26 Feb. 2024

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harvest

2 of 2 verb

• It is time to harvest the wheat.
• They want to harvest timber in these woods.
• Thieves are known to rappel down cliffs to harvest them.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
• The 7-inch long, sweet crispy fruits have thick skins and can be harvested red or green.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2024
• He’s allowed his son to harvest those crops as feed for his cows, but Schmidt is still feeling the brunt of the drought.
  — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• These are the best pruning shears to harvest blooms off your front porch or garden.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
• It was used by the Natufian people, who were known to harvest and process wild grain.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• To harvest an agave plant for tequila or other liquors, the plant is fully dug up.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
• The corals were harvested over the past week from offshore nurseries and parent colonies.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 July 2023
• In coastal Texas, corn and sorghum are harvested by mid-July, which this year was before the heat dome moved in.
  — WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023
• When the berries ripen, says Horse Capture, Tongva artists arrive to harvest them.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• To harvest, separate the fruit from the vine by cutting the tendril, but leave about two inches still attached to the fruit.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• For decades, the demand was so high that these fish were harvested to the brink of extinction in Europe.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2023
• After the fruit has been harvested from a pineapple plant, the mother plant begins to die off.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2024
• Cows, goats and horses gave birth in the spring, and as a result, humans harvested their milk in the hottest months of the year as the animals nursed their young.
  — Douglas Girardot, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Just plant your garlic in the fall, then wait until early summer to harvest.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
• Don’t wait too long to harvest because when a third leaf grows, the flavor can change from nutty or earthy to bitter, Beauchamp says.
  — Lauren David, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• And those are just the bulls that Carpenter has harvested himself.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
• Stone Hill reopened in 1965, and hobbyists across the state harvested once again.
  — Alex Mayyasi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• The tiny fish, which weigh only a few grams, are harvested by fishermen using nets in rivers and streams.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
• Each tree can grow to a height of eight meters, so farmers need to hoist themselves up on bamboo ladders to harvest them.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• At the same grove where the oranges were harvested, there was a plant to produce frozen orange juice concentrate.
  — Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2024
• One day soon, a platform 50 times as large may float in the deep waters of the North Sea, buoying up a massive wind turbine to harvest the steady, strong breezes there.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
• Some merchants sell split crab legs, which makes harvesting the meat from the shells easier.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
• Foot traffic remained down in the last century, as little else lives in the crater that can be harvested or cut down.
  — Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• The coyote harvest, and the number of coyotes harvested per hunter, have not increased since 2016.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• For the most flavorful leaves, harvest them before the flowers appear.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2023
• Your farmer can harvest eggs more quickly and get to making goods like mayonnaise, which will be drinkable.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024
• But robots can scoot under the canopy of corn, soybeans and cotton and plant cover crop seed before the main crop is harvested.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
• In the Sumy region on the Russian border, farmers harvest their crops wearing body armor.
  — Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024