Sentence examples for instead of tractors from inspiring English sources

The ghost of Kevin Bacon hangs heavy as rising star Kenny Wormald races buses instead of tractors and Dennis Quaid takes over from John Lithgow in the fatherly pulpit duties.

Instead of tractors, it sells better profitability by optimizing farming.

"We use sheep instead of tractors," Cahn explained, since flocks graze between the rows of vines to keep down the surrounding vegetation.

We often hear reports of cows [oxen are used for farming purposes instead of tractors] that have been surreptitiously pushed into the highway.

SAM HAZLEHURST, 35, who has a degree in math and computer science from Brown University, grows four acres of vegetables with three Percheron draft horses instead of a tractor.

And instead of buying new tractors and harvesters, old ones are lined up in a muddy lot awaiting the spare parts that the farm scrambles to buy.

Many farmers said they would repair old pieces of equipment — planters, balers, tractors — instead of buying new ones.

"When they mechanized and got tractors instead of horses, in '37 or '38, the argument was that you could not possibly have the leadership development, the character development, that came from having to manage a team of horses while plowing the fields".

"I just wanted to preserve the tractors instead of junking them," he says.

The mower fails to start, and I have to jump-start it with the tractor instead of plugging in the battery charger.

It features the Tickler, a machine that administers a light massage, as well as a device that looks like a small tractor, "but instead of a continuous chain, it has little rubber nubs," he said.