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Example sentences for "sow"

Lexicographically close words:
sovereyn; sovra; sovran; sovrans; sovranty; sowar; sowars; sowd; sowdan; sowe
  1. Den Brer Rabbit say he got a fifty-dollar bill w'at say dat he kin leave Brer Tarrypin so fur behime, dat he could sow barley ez he went long en hit 'ud be ripe nuff fer ter cut by de time Brer Tarrypin pass dat way.

  2. The friendly chiefs before Jove's altar stand, Both armed, with each a charger in his hand: A fatted sow for sacrifice is led, With imprecations on the perjured head.

  3. And that this nightly vision may not seem The effect of fancy, or an idle dream, A sow beneath an oak shall lie along, All white herself, and white her thirty young.

  4. The men than owt in full gret hy, And on the wallis thai gan cry, That thair sow wes feryt thar.

  5. The sow was a military engine, resembling the Roman testudo.

  6. The sow was called by the French Truie.

  7. M98) The Kachins of Upper Burma worship the spirit (nat) of the earth every year before they sow their crops.

  8. This corn is sown upon a spot of ground never before cultivated; which ground is dressed and prepared by the warriors alone, who also are the only persons that sow the corn, weed it, reap it, and gather it.

  9. If you can get any ripe ones, also sow some with the palm seeds.

  10. The sow perhaps refuses her feed, although she will drink water in large quantities.

  11. When a sow aborts, burn the pigs and afterbirth, and disinfect the pens with a Coal Tar disinfectant.

  12. As a rule, when a sow aborts, she will not prepare a bed, as she would normally.

  13. The sow should receive a dose about eight times the size of that of the pigs.

  14. I have named the sum, Isabel, and I shall not make it less.

  15. He asked his conscience whether his manner to her in the past days had been a tinge warmer than we bestow upon a sister, and he decided that it might have been, but he most certainly never cast a suspicion to the mischief it was doing.

  16. Most of those in the interior do not sow corn, but live on flesh and milk, and are clad in skins.

  17. THE EAGLE, THE CAT, AND THE WILD SOW An Eagle built her nest at the top of a high tree; a Cat with her family occupied a hollow in the trunk half-way down; and a Wild Sow and her young took up their quarters at the foot.

  18. Presently a buyer came along and asked if the Sow produced good litters.

  19. THE DOG AND THE SOW A Dog and a Sow were arguing and each claimed that its own young ones were finer than those of any other animal.

  20. Festivals these were: and the Athenians always sacrifice a sow at one, and a boar at the other; while at the Dionysia they sacrifice a kid.

  21. Brebis qui bêle perd sa goulée = It is the silent sow that sucks the wash.

  22. Tenir le loup par la queue = To have hold of the sow by the wrong ear.

  23. At Modica, in Sicily, on October 1st, a maiden in love will sow two Beans in the same pot.

  24. They sow their seed as the husbandman duz his expekting it tew sprout, and rejoice as he duz in a good crop.

  25. The old masheen iz a gem, and will sow on a patch quicker than the hole was made.

  26. You have let them sow the barley much too thick.

  27. Oh, yes, it has a good color; but what do you think they sow here?

  28. The Like of Me, to come to New Sow Wales To go a-tagging arter Vethers' Tails And valk in Herbage as delights the Flock, But stinks of Sweet Herbs vorser nor the Dock!

  29. What, fool, know you not a sow that will greet and groan and cry a-week, a-week.

  30. I say," said the Scotsman, "I will have a bare head like the head that follows a sow with gryces.


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