How to Use hoe in a Sentence

hoe

1 of 2 noun

• The steak and hoe cakes ($14) pack a tasty punch of spice.
  — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2017
• Pull weeds out by the roots or cut off the top growth with a hoe.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
• Most of us don’t pay much mind to our spades, hoes, and edgers.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2018
• Grab a hoe or get down on your hands and knees to pull weeds out by the root.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2022
• Prepare the ground with a hoe and rake up the last of the winter leaves and needles.
  — Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• Then plunge the blades of your shovels and hoes into the sand, et voila!
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• It’s a hand tool, like a hatchet, that has an ax on one side of the head and a hoe on the other.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
• The coa, a cross between a hoe and a machete, is used to cut the leaves and separate the core from the rest of the plant.
  — Oj Lima, Bon Appétit, 22 July 2022
• Better yet, use a hoe to whack them off just below the soil line.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 2 Mar. 2018
• With a small, one-handed hoe, a planter opened a hole in the wet earth, which parted with a squelch.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• As the platform moves, hauled by a back hoe, the tubes in front will be deflated.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 13 June 2017
• Don’t compare me to Iggy/that old hoe is washed and I’m lit/wouldn’t pay her to wash out my whip.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• Don't damage roots. Chopping with a hoe can slice tree and shrub roots.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
• The East Canyon Fire was started when a piece of heavy machinery, a track hoe, hit a rock.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2021
• As the platform moves, hauled by a back hoe, tubes in front are deflated.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 27 Apr. 2017
• For those not in the know, a hazel hoe is used to trench and clear the area, while a sawyer is a person trained to down limbs and trees during wildfires.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 16 Sep. 2020
• Barber, himself, was the first to get behind the wheel of a track hoe to start the demolition process.
  — John Sharp, AL.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Those who used to scrape a living from the soil with a wooden hoe start driving tractors.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• The first of four turrets was torn down at 1:47 p.m. Tuesday, pulled down by the claws on an extended track hoe.
  — al, 11 Jan. 2022
• The Pulaski is a firefighting tool with a sharp hoe on one end and an ax-head on the other.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2020
• One will actually have to break out a shovel and a hoe.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2021
• Weeds growing in beds can also be killed by hand removal or killing them with a push-pull hoe.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• The neutral hoe cakes do little to quell the burn from this sauce duo, which threatens to overpower.
  — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2017
• Use a type of weeder or hoe that skims below the soil surface, slicing weeds off at the roots, but doesn't turn over lots of soil.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
• Bearing a scythe, a hoe, and a stevedore’s hook, the women appear ready for action.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
• Speaking of opening doors, that big aluminum rake or your old hoe in your shed might come in handy to pull snow off roofs.
  — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
• When the shoots reach 10 to 12 inches tall, use a hoe or shovel to scoop soil from between rows and mound it against the plants, burying the stems halfway.
  — Doug Hall, Good Housekeeping, 21 May 2020
• Prevent cracks and crusting of the soil with mulch or going through with a hoe and fluffing up the top couple of inches.
  — oregonlive.com, 11 June 2019
• Secure with a rubber band and place in your hoes at night to soak up lingering moisture and smells.
  — Dwyer Frame, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
• Staying engaged, in fact, might be the hardest part — especially for a team with such a long row to hoe.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2024

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hoe

2 of 2 verb

• The garden has to be hoed.
• She was hoeing in the garden all day.
• With mulch in place, hoeing won’t work to remove weeds.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 2 May 2018
• My first job at 14 was hoeing on a tree nursery, all day, five days a week.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018
• That leaves advocates such as Taddese and Berhe with a tough row to hoe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2019
• This is the time to hoe or pull or smother weeds with a thick layer of mulch before they flower.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Other than this is going to be a tough road to hoe for Brian Flores.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Also, readers should know that Apple faces a long, hard row to hoe in getting websites and apps to sign on to this.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
• In 1977, summer days were hot, especially when Kelly hoed corn in the fields, but nights were cool.
  — The Marshall Project, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• What’s different in 2018 is that most of the smaller Oscar contenders — and even some of the bigger ones — have found tough rows to hoe at the box office.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
• Maintain Dig in blood and bone meal along with compost once the soil dries out a little (to prevent clods); wait for weed sprouts to follow, then hoe them in.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• During the war years, dandelions were grown in neat rows allowing farmers to hoe between lines of the plants.
  — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
• Fortunately, these seedlings are easy to hoe away and once taken down to the soil don't regenerate.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
• There’s concern he’ll get lost in the shuffle some weeks, and being a rookie receiver isn’t an easy row to hoe amid the demands of a normal season.
  — Cory Bonini, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2020
• But perennial weeds will often resprout from their below-ground parts, and that makes hoeing a poor control for them.
  — NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• One morning this week, Markowski watched workers hoeing the rich soil between rows of tobacco beneath acres of tenting on his family's West Suffield farm.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 15 June 2017
• This isn't just standing there watering the flowers, but weeding, digging, hoeing, raking and planting.
  — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 28 Dec. 2017
• So yes, digging, raking, hoeing, weeding, and planting all fit into the functional exercise category.
  — Kimberly Garrison, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
• The garden has to be hoed.
• She was hoeing in the garden all day.
• With mulch in place, hoeing won’t work to remove weeds.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 2 May 2018
• My first job at 14 was hoeing on a tree nursery, all day, five days a week.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018
• That leaves advocates such as Taddese and Berhe with a tough row to hoe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2019
• This is the time to hoe or pull or smother weeds with a thick layer of mulch before they flower.
  — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Other than this is going to be a tough road to hoe for Brian Flores.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Also, readers should know that Apple faces a long, hard row to hoe in getting websites and apps to sign on to this.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
• In 1977, summer days were hot, especially when Kelly hoed corn in the fields, but nights were cool.
  — The Marshall Project, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• What’s different in 2018 is that most of the smaller Oscar contenders — and even some of the bigger ones — have found tough rows to hoe at the box office.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
• Maintain Dig in blood and bone meal along with compost once the soil dries out a little (to prevent clods); wait for weed sprouts to follow, then hoe them in.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
• During the war years, dandelions were grown in neat rows allowing farmers to hoe between lines of the plants.
  — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024