How to Use thresher in a Sentence

thresher

noun
Definition of threshernext
  • Then one day a thresher showed up and harvested the crop.
    — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • In the case of this large thresher in Libya, the female shark was lanced straight through the heart, and a blue shark found in 2016 off the coast of Spain had been stabbed in the brain.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • When the winnowing’s done, and the windbags and the mediocrities have all been blown out the side of the thresher, what will your verdict be?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The stalks are then cut and sent through a thresher to separate the grain from what is now essentially hay.
    — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Jasper fed bines into a conveyor belt that pulled the plants up and into a thresher, which stripped away the hop flowers.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Jane Poynter, who lost the tip of her finger in a rice thresher, married a fellow crew member.
    — Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
  • Grocery carts went door-to-door and families shared steam threshers later on to help neighbors bring in their harvests.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • What’s a parent supposed to do with that pro tip, especially when a child routinely runs your sense of self through a thresher?
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • Three years later, Witness announces that the thresher of big-business pop has advanced in its harvest of history by, well, about three years.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • While the fungal pathogen killing the leopard sharks has affected them indiscriminately, the salmon, thresher, and mako sharks that have washed up seem mainly to be young.
    — Eric Simons, National Geographic, 16 May 2017
  • His team plans to build 50 threshers to distribute for feedback before mass-producing them.
    — National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2017
  • This latest sighting comes after swimmers were forced to evacuate the water at East Beach in Charlestown on Sunday because of a thresher spotted.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • The research also found that many of the open-ocean species in the fin trade, such as blue sharks, thresher sharks, and oceanic white tip sharks, were likely caught within territorial waters, not in the open oceans, as expected.
    — David Shiffman, National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Warming temperatures and loss of oxygen in the sea will shrink hundreds of fish species—from tunas and groupers to salmon, thresher sharks, haddock and cod—even more than previously thought, a new study concludes.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Skomal said threshers make good eating and are prized by recreational fishermen.
    — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Shark researchers told the Cape Cod Times that threshers likely don’t have the ability to generate enough heat to keep vital organs healthy in water below 44 degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The International Union for the Conservation of Nature designated the short fin mako as endangered, the great white, porbeagle and common thresher as vulnerable and the blue shark as near threatened.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
  • Mako Mania Tournament: 21st annual contest for catching sharks, bluefish and thresher sharks.
    — baltimoresun.com, 16 May 2017
  • Residents applaud cleaner conditions; anglers say they are unfairly being singled out Local fishermen say the best fish, from yellowtail to thresher sharks, can be found at the end of Imperial Beach’s iconic 1,500-foot pier.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021

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