SOW in a Sentence

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62 example sentences for SOW, such as:

1. Early sow, early mow.
2. As you sow you shall mow.
3. It is too soon to sow yet.
4. As they sow, so let them reap.
5. The still sow eats up all the draff.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sow
 v.  plant; place seeds in or on
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  Nuthin cept one ole sow an her litter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  And you and Prissy go bring in the sow and her litter, she said briefly, turning on her heel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  That morning the house was still, for everyone except Scarlett, Wade and the three sick girls was in the swamp hunting the sow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Those fools would never catch the sow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  It had taken them a week to capture the pigs, one by one, and now after two weeks the sow was still at liberty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  The old sow had finally been captured and she and her brood rooted and grunted happily under the house where they were penned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  "Good for the sow," thought Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  A pang went through her as she heard an agonized squealing which was suddenly stilled by a pistol shot and she knew that the sow was dead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  "I'll tear this house down, stone by stone, and burn it and sow every acre with salt before I see either of you put foot over this threshold," she shouted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  For the nonce, however, he proposed to sail about, and sow his wild oats in all four oceans.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
11  Also, a sow and her family were helping to grace the scene.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
12  Naturally this unseemly contretemps had greatly upset our hero; for, however foolish be a madman's words, they may yet prove sufficient to sow doubt in the minds of saner individuals.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
13  Were it mine, I should put it under flax, and clear five thousand roubles, or else sow it with turnips, and clear, perhaps, four thousand.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
14  Plant, sow, and dig the earth without taking a moment's rest.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
15  It was given out that the pasture was exhausted and needed re-seeding; but it soon became known that Napoleon intended to sow it with barley.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The still sow eats up all the draff.
2  Wahtever a man sow, that shall he also reap.
3  One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
4  A sow, when washed; returns to the muck.
5  It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
6  They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
7  It is too soon to sow yet.
8  As you sow you shall mow.
9  Early sow, early mow.
10  You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.
11  They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
12  As they sow, so let them reap.
13  You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
14  The sow breeds piglets in the spring.
15  You would sow the ground with sunflower seeds.