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Example sentences for "furrow"

Lexicographically close words:
furriers; furrin; furriner; furriners; furring; furrowed; furrowing; furrows; furrs; furry
  1. The squaw passed down the deep prairie furrow while Seth held to the trail.

  2. Its path was marked by a shocking furrow of lacerated flesh.

  3. With his coat unhooked from the antlers and flung across his arm, he stood contemplating, a furrow of perplexity between his eyes.

  4. With the oldest gesture of the shod age Mrs. Binswanger dived into her work-basket, withdrew with a sock, inserted her five fingers into the foot, and fell to scanning it this way and that with a furrow between her eyes.

  5. If the water of heavy rains stands for some time on the surface, or if water collects in the furrow while plowing, draining is necessary to bring the land to its full fertility.

  6. The rustic ploughman at the early morn The yielding furrow turns with heedless tread, Or tends with frugal care the springing corn, Where tyrants conquered and where heroes bled.

  7. Swift as their summons came they left The plough mid-furrow standing still, The half-ground corn grist in the mill, The spade in earth, the axe in cleft.

  8. She'd got James with the trace-chains and the spare horses, and had made him clear off every stick and bush where another furrow might be squeezed in.

  9. The lavatories and bathing arrangements consisted of a tap in the yard and an open furrow through which the town water ran, the lower end of which was used as a wash-place by prisoners, white and black alike.

  10. Within a foot or two of the furrow where alone washing of the person or of clothing was allowed stood the gaol urinals.

  11. But there is another Gertrude Van Deusen, who having laid her hand to the plough, would deem it a disgrace to turn back before her furrow is ploughed.

  12. During all this performance, the wolf which was hidden in a furrow in the centre of the field had not moved, although the antelopes had passed around and over him dozens of times.

  13. And they ever dug deeper in front of the stem, and in the furrow laid polished rollers; and inclined the ship down upon the first rollers, that so she might glide and be borne on by them.

  14. He sang and turned his furrow oer And urged his team along, While on the willow as before The old crow croaked his song: The ploughman sung his rustic lay And sung of Phoebe all the day.

  15. He sung, and turned each furrow down, His sweetheart's love in cotton gown.

  16. This fold or furrow may be seen in all the photographs, and is very characteristic of the expression of a crying child; though a nearly similar fold is produced in the act of laughing or Smiling.

  17. The contraction of this muscle makes a distinct furrow on the cheek, and produces strong wrinkles under the eye, especially at its inner corner.

  18. The curvature of the naso-labial furrow is also slightly different in the two cases.

  19. When a human soul draws its first furrow straight, the rest will follow surely.

  20. The soil is everywhere friable; no painful struggles retard the speed of the plough, which traces at one stretch a furrow miles in length without turning the ploughshare.

  21. After about a mile of this, the hunter curved his furrow sharply in toward the burned-out portion, ending his line behind the line of fire.

  22. These patina mountains are crowned by extensive forests, and narrow belts of jungle descend from the summit to the base, clothing the numerous ravines which furrow the mountain's side.

  23. Landslips of great size and innumerable deep gorges and ravines furrow the bottom of the basin, until at length a principal fissure carries away the united streams to the paddy-fields below.

  24. A case of frontal injury was shown to me at Wynberg, in which a distinct furrow could be traced across the upper part of the frontal sinuses.

  25. A rugged furrow was found on the under surface of the left lobe of the liver; the stomach was contracted and firmly adherent by recent lymph to the under surface of the liver and the diaphragm.

  26. The edges of this furrow then bend towards each other, and join to form a tube (Figure 1.

  27. The formation of the alimentary canal resembles that of the medullary tube to this extent--in both cases a straight groove or furrow arises first of all in the middle line of a flat layer.

  28. This is even clearer a little later, when the medullary furrow is closed into the nerve-tube (Figure 1.

  29. In this fore-half of the dorsal shield a median furrow quickly makes its appearance (Figure 1.

  30. The medullary furrow (me), which is not yet visible in Figure 1.

  31. In its axis is seen the dorsal furrow or medullary furrow (a).

  32. Then a second circular furrow appears, parallel to the first, and nearer to the north pole, so that we may compare it to the north polar circle.

  33. This is the broader dorsal furrow or medullary groove, the first beginning of the central nervous system.

  34. She had come with the intention of saying something definite; and she looked at the stage with a furrow between her brows, seeing nothing, her hands squeezed together in her lap.

  35. Hallock, shirt-sleeved, unkempt, and with the permanent frown deepening the furrow between his eyes, neither tilted nor smoked.

  36. Slowly the big freight-puller rose out of its furrow in the gravel, righting itself to the perpendicular as it came.

  37. Irrigate in a furrow between the rows about once a month; cultivate after each irrigation.

  38. When the land cannot be covered well by the furrow system, checking is resorted to, but not otherwise.

  39. In places where the soil is pretty heavy and the rainfall is apt to be quite large, plowing toward the trees and opening a dead furrow near the center seems to promote rapid distribution of surplus water.

  40. By all means use the furrow system of irrigation unless your land should be so light that the water would sink in the furrows and distribution would be very unequal without covering the whole surface as is done by filling checks.

  41. If I were to turn water in the field when too cold, would that keep the frost off, and if so, would I have to turn water down each row, or would one furrow full of water to about every fourth or sixth row be enough?

  42. If you have not water enough or the land does not lie right for flooding, you can grow the sorghum in drills and irrigate by the furrow method, being careful, however, not to let the crop go too far if you desire to feed it as hay.

  43. During the dry time of the year potatoes should be grown with flat cultivation, except as it may be necessary to furrow out between the rows for the application of irrigation water.

  44. The soil is adobe, and the customary way of planting tomatoes is 6 feet apart each way, plowing a trench of one furrow with the slope of the land for irrigating, that is, a trench between every row and a cross trench as a feeder.

  45. Cultivated alfalfa is a term applied to alfalfa sown in rows and allowed to grow in narrow bands with cultivated land between, and the irrigation is then done in a furrow in the narrow cultivated strip.

  46. He had lost touch with his own class of men and women patiently plowing the hard furrow of their lives.

  47. Say, will he stubborn stoop thy yoke to bear, And thro' the furrow drag the tardy share?

  48. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield!

  49. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
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