How to Use seeder in a Sentence

seeder

noun
  • After the cut grass is vacuumed up, a seeder truck plants the seeds.
    Teri Webster, Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The freeze hurt mature onions whose bulbs were partly above ground and stressed others, forcing some onions to grow what is called a seeder at the center.
    New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • On larger areas, rented equipment in the form of a power rake and a machine called a slit seeder will work.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • On larger areas, rented equipment in the form of a power rake and a machine called a slit seeder will work.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • To encourage farmers to use the seeders, the government is offering to pay half the cost.
    Geeta Anand, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
  • For example, a seeder was made that opened a furrow, dropped in seeds from a canister, covered the seeds with soil, tamped the soil and marked it for the next furrow.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 9 June 2017
  • Lubricate and check the condition of sprayers and seeders, and replace or sharpen blades on tillers.
    Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2020
  • On a slate gray morning in late May, Robert Thurman Sr. grabbed a paper bag of string bean seeds and poured them into the hopper of a garden seeder.
    Rashod Taylor, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The government is promoting a seeder that can be mounted on a tractor and used to plant wheat without the need to dispose of the straw left after the rice harvest.
    Geeta Anand, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
  • That’s because many Blockbusters have leaked to BitTorrent pirate sites, and the likely seeders are academy members.
    David Kravets, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2013
  • Dust is a great ice cloud seeder, but due to the lack of dusty land sources in the Southern Hemisphere, some scientists have hypothesized that other types of particles might be driving ice cloud formation over the Southern Ocean.
    Thomas Hill, The Conversation, 19 June 2020
  • As part of the CII’s model, a range of subsidised machinery is provided to farmers, including happy seeders, zero tills, mulchers, and rotavators.
    Amanat Khullar, Quartz India, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Ellie was fatally injured Saturday afternoon by a slice seeder that was attached to a tractor her father had been operating on their farm.
    Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Examples of top re-seeders: hollyhock, marigold, calendula, and zinnia.
    Kier Holmes, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018

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