Sentence examples for threshing about from inspiring English sources

It was all too much for the Sky Blue supporters, who started threshing about like salmon desperate to spawn, rushing repeatedly at the gate and attempting to batter it down before being dispersed by the police.

As Judith loads the enemy's head onto a basket carried by her maid and covers it with a cloth, she looks towards the tent, apparently distracted by the limbs of the decapitated corpse threshing about.

That they retained that role for a long period of time is shown by the appearance of the OIA words vrīhi "paddy" and "threshed (husked/unhusked) rice" in about 1200 BCE, and by the later replacement of these words by another Dravidian loanword, *cāmala/*cāvala, a millennium or so later.

Which is something many Americans believe, but have the good sense to refrain from fighting about on a restaurant threshing floor.

Use a scythe or sharp bladed scissors and hang up the harvest for about a fortnight to get dead ripe then you can thresh.

Gradually Pop stopped threshing and struggling.

We find her busy threshing millet.

Flail, ancient hand tool for threshing grain.

What he writes of one blues scholar could easily be said about Sullivan himself: "He was interested, in other words, in culturally precious things that had been accidentally snagged and preserved by stray cogs of the anarchic capitalist threshing machine".

Harvesting of dry seed is accomplished by threshing.

The flail remained the principal method of threshing until the mid-19th century, when mechanical threshers became widespread (see thresher).