Example sentences for: sow

How can you use “sow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The year after his election, John Paul II returned to Poland for nine days and encountered a rhapsodic reception that more than one biographer credits with helping to sow the seeds of the Solidarity movement's later challenge to the Communist regime.

  • Some of the common comparisons were: slow as the seven-year itch, mad as a biting sow, though as withleather, fierce as a boar hog, flat as a flitter , and hot as flugens .

  • Randy, I'm always true to you, darling, in my fashion, but sometimes a girl needs to sow some wild oats.

  • Claiborne investigates and reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats , about which he tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information that fatua is Latin for `foolish': it was also Latin for `wild,' which might be more to the point.

  • Via di Ripetta imperceptibly merges into Via della Scrofa `Street of the Sow,' named after another ancient sculpture that is still preserved there.


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