thresh - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • corn: This is often taken to mean the threshing of the corn to produce bread and the trampling of grapes to produce wine.

Object

  • sledge: Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
  • barn: Sometimes the threshing barn was separate from the granary.
  • wheat: In threshing wheat for seed, care should be taken that the machine is well cleansed of the grain it has previously threshed.
  • corn: Then thresh the new corn fighting off help from E, who spends most of the day ( possibly all day ) naked.
  • grain: G:Fgns A majority of the samples in the ' pit fills ' class contain free threshing wheat grains ( 52 % ).
  • machine: The threshing machine knocked out the grain from the ears of corn.

Subject

  • hand: Corn was normally threshed by hand with a flail during the winter months.

Modifying Another Word

  • about: Despite many calming hands he threshed about, pointing at the empty space behind his father.
  • then: Then thresh the new corn fighting off help from E, who spends most of the day ( possibly all day ) naked.

Preposition: by

  • hand: Corn was normally threshed by hand with a flail during the winter months.

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