sow - use in sentences

Object

  • seed: To grow, sow seed indoors during the late winter.
  • seedling: In many parts of the country fields are empty because, where farmers did sow, seedlings died in the arid heat.
  • thistle: Here and there in fields, or along the road sides, there are displays of the tall sow thistles.
  • pea: Sow sweet peas in a cold frame or the greenhouse for early summer blooms next year.

Converse of object

  • farrow: A farrowing sow will build her nest of straw freely where she pleases and we observe the birthing process.
  • lactate: The auditor observed a lactating sow trapped on 17 May 2000.

Preposition: in

  • pot: Hardy annuals can be sown in pots or modules to provide color in the garden.

Adjective modifier

  • pregnant: Further information The injection of PG 600 into a pregnant sow or gilt will fail to produce heat and will not cause abortion.

Possessives

  • ear: You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Preposition: in

  • situ: Mature crop sow in situ or transplant from modules space for small plants from 5cm apart up to 50cm for larger plants.
  • tear: The promise of verse 5: " Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

Preposition: with

  • piglet: One empty farrowing pen had sawdust in it; however sows with piglets housed in such pens were not cleaned out.

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