HARVEST in a Sentence

Learn HARVEST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

67 example sentences for HARVEST, such as:

1. Today we begin the hay harvest.
2. A heavy snow promise a good harvest.
3. Counsel after action is like rain after harvest.
4. Villagers used to hold a great feast at harvest time.
5. The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.

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 Meanings and Examples of HARVEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
harvest
 v.  gather; yield from plants in a single growing season
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  Today we begin the hay harvest.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
2  So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
3  In the end they finished the harvest in two days' less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
4  Moreover, it was the biggest harvest that the farm had ever seen.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
5  But everyone worked according to his capacity The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
6  It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
7  Boxer would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
8  Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year's harvest and eaten them in the night.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
9  In the autumn, by a tremendous, exhausting effort--for the harvest had to be gathered at almost the same time--the windmill was finished.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
10  A great harvest the mind had reaped; but for all this, compared with his son, he did not care one damn.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
11  Eager to see it accomplished, and yet patient, she waited for the last fall, as for the ripeness and fulness of the harvest of her hopes.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
12  They are now expecting their harvest, and are reinforced with the soldiers that escaped from Torquilstone.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  I have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
14  All the nights were close and hot during that harvest season.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
15  The wheat harvest was over, and here and there along the horizon I could see black puffs of smoke from the steam threshing-machines.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Counsel after action is like rain after harvest.
2  Another poor harvest could turn the country's economy upside down.
3  In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
4  To take an obvious example, if there is a good harvest the price of grain will fall.
5  A heavy snow promise a good harvest.
6  Villagers used to hold a great feast at harvest time.
7  The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.
8  Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand.
9  After the harvest, the peasants began to prepare the soil for seed.
10  Only fantasy and action, can never realize the joy of harvest.
11  The farm was flooded, with the result that most of the harvest was lost.
12  The bandits desolate the countryside, burning farms and carrying off the harvest.
13  When you harvest your crop, you store it in a fat dried mud and stick granary, which is taller than you can reach.
14  I wish to foster, not to blight -- to earn gratitude, not to wring tears of blood -- no, nor of brine: my harvest must be in smiles, in endearments, in sweet -- That will do.
15  However, during the summer harvest season we had scrumptious all-vegetable dinners.