How to Use furrow in a Sentence

furrow

1 of 2 noun
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  • It can be used to weed, plant, furrow and probe in the soil.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 June 2018
  • This means there can’t be any humps or deep furrows in the concrete.
    — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • Nick Knox, the furrow-browed drummer for the great punk band the Cramps, died Friday at 60.
    — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 16 June 2018
  • But, with Britain about to leave Europe, the tap will soon be turned off and the farm will have to plough its own furrow.
    — David McClure, Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The fields, lined with furrows, had once again become vast pools of water.
    — Viviana Hinojos, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • These furrows appeared only on the outer faces of mostly the upper teeth, at the front of the mouth.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
  • The furrow leads back and forth through fields of sesame, cowpeas, kidney beans, pulses.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2020
  • For sets, open a furrow 2 inches deep and place the sets stem pointed end up 4 to 6 inches apart, and then fill in the furrow.
    — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 21 May 2020
  • The future of the Democracy lies in following the furrow plowed by Al.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Use your trowel to make a straight, shallow furrow, and keep rows about six inches apart.
    — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The second bullet dug through the back of his head, ripping a furrow that doctors had to staple closed.
    — Joe Robertson, kansascity, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Place the sets in a shallow furrow, space four to six inches apart, and cover with just enough soil to leave their pointed tips at the soil surface.
    — Hilary Dahl, Good Housekeeping, 1 July 2019
  • Instead of rototilling, make seed-size holes with a pencil or drag a stick down a bed to make inch-wide furrows for planting in rows.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2020
  • Stage three required more silicone cheeks, chin, neck, back of neck, lips and stretch and stipple to age around her eyes, forehead and furrow.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
  • This translation is the furrow wherein grief and love converge.
    — Mary Retta, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Just look at the impenitent subject: the deep furrow between his eyebrows and the one that contours his cheek seem to want to connect and form a kind of scar in shadow.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Thon's handmade stainless steel railings, the highest point on the vessel, dug furrows into the ceiling.
    — Author: Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Aug. 2017
  • The ground has been prepared with scores of kilometer-long furrows leading to a horizon studded with skeletal thorn trees.
    — Aryn Baker / Mbar Toubab, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But in nearby Severodonetsk, workers brought a fresh batch of corpses in body bags to the southern edge of the city, even as a bulldozer dug out a fresh furrow in the expanding cemetery.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Look at the same land from an airplane and distance reveals the ghost of water, the branching etchings and furrows of desiccated riverbeds and arroyos.
    — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • No wonder her nerves are shredded, and her brow etched into a permanent furrow of tension.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Feb. 2023
  • These conditions equilibrated to an icy world with a furrow around the equator.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Even a light rain can affect seed depth for each furrow, forcing the farmer to constantly recalibrate and double-check the planter to keep from wasting seeds.
    — Ted Genoways, New Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The vast majority plow the same furrow for their whole careers, evolving the details of their positions but rarely flipping them.
    — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Months of winter rain filled aquifers to the point of overflowing, leaving water to course down uncovered furrows, taking a lot of the continent’s soil along with it.
    — Bella Bathurst, Newsweek, 29 May 2014
  • Elsewhere, birds had scattered seeds throughout what was once an orderly orchard, so that new trees soon obscured the old furrows.
    — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Miscast not in the slightest, Ohio State won, 56-14, plowing a furrow through the Nebraska Cornhuskers that dwarfed anything by pioneers busting up the prairie sod.
    — cleveland, 27 Dec. 2019
  • In other words, without secrets life is burden-work and business, furrow, yoke, plow—sterile and fruitless.
    — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
  • But according to the study, once one large fracture appeared, the ice pressure was relieved, suppressing the creation of another furrow on the opposing pole.
    — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Along the crooked journey, Seehorn has turned in magnetic and nuanced performances, secrets revealed and questions posed in the slightest crease of a smile or tiniest quiver of concerned brow-furrow.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2020
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furrow

2 of 2 verb
  • Stress can stunt your sleep, strain your eyes, furrow your brow, and so forth.
    — Adam Hurly, GQ, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Your brow furrows and that vein above your eyebrow comes to life.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2018
  • Apply the excess onto your 11’s [the brow furrow lines] and along the brow bone.
    — Jessica Matlin, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Sep. 2019
  • At this, the shooter appeared to subtly shake his head and furrow his brows.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • What was there was not there, disappearing in the fold, furrowing the field.
    — L. S. Asekoff, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Mr. Dongo furrowed his brow and performed small stunts with his chair.
    — Clair MacDougall, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2017
  • Ortega furrows her brow and shakes her head as though hearing a ridiculous claim for the first time.
    — Maureen O'Connor, The Cut, 12 Apr. 2018
  • His thick eyebrows were thicker and angry and furrowed, along with a huge mustache that took up much of his face.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2023
  • At school, Jughead furrows his brow at the idea of him and F.P. sitting down with Hiram for a conference.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Their brows are not furrowed by the stress and expense of car ownership and dependence.
    — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 5 July 2018
  • Forehead: Place your fingers on your forehead and push up while trying to furrow your brows.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Bailey walked into Oakland with a 4.80 ERA that furrowed some brows.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Her demeanor is kind and sensible, her eyes piercing; a deep line furrows her brows.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The wail of his abused spirit seems to well up subtly in his eyes, the weight of endured indignities seems to bow his shoulders and furrow his brow.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Both issues furrow brows, but the second poses the harder questions.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Her brow doesn’t furrow — a reflection of her control rather than a symptom of Botox dependence.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • Her amber eyes peer quizzically at the viewer, with her brow slightly furrowed.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • When the forewoman read the first verdict, Tartaglione — dressed in a gray suit and black shirt, her hair pulled back tightly in a bun — furrowed her forehead, looked down at the defense table, and wrote something down.
    — Philly.com, 23 June 2017
  • The drawing depicted a story of unease, especially by the way some of the profiles grimaced and furrowed their brows.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 12 July 2019
  • Mentioning Scotland and automobiles in the same breath often furrows more than a few brows.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
  • That’s not what causing Fukunaga’s brow to furrow at the moment, however.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2021
  • But the link between farming and health is always on the mind of Masandouno, the village chief, whose brow seems permanently furrowed in an expression of concern.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Seated at their computers, players furrowed their brows and clicked furiously while the action played out on two screens flanking the stage.
    — Tristan Ettleman, azcentral, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But when presented with the moniker at the postgame dais Saturday night, Angels manager Phil Nevin furrowed his brow, halting the line of questioning.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
  • First bites were a complete pleasure, but follow-up bites saw our tasters furrow their metaphorical collective brow.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Cranston’s gingery brows furrow in consternation for a few seconds.
    — Jessica Pressler, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2017
  • In short, there’s a confounding number of products, and some pretty outlandish medical claims out there—but making the right choices needn’t furrow the forehead.
    — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 12 June 2022
  • Play a drinking game that involves taking a shot whenever Kristen Stewart furrows her brow!
    — Lori Keong, Marie Claire, 4 May 2017
  • Neither of which means anything to the horrific new engine, which affects the Suburban in strange and scary ways, ways that furrow the brows and tighten the lips of any upstanding suburbanite.
    — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 25 May 2020
  • On Zoom conference calls across the US this week, brows furrowed as the news broke that the video conference company had a flaw in its backend that could give hackers access to people’s webcams.
    — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 13 July 2019

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