sown
IPA: sˈoʊn
noun
- (especially historiography) Cultivated land inhabited by sedentary agriculturalists, in contrast to the nomad pastoralists of the steppe or desert.
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Examples of "sown" in Sentences
- The roads are sown with corpses.
- Chaos will be sown in their passage.
- It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory.
- It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory.
- It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
- It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory.
- The seed sown is springing up with bright promise.
- It is sown in the spring and harvested in the summer.
- It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
- However, the seeds were sown for the rebirth of the French industry.
- A city in isolation and the culture of complacency that can be sown from.
- As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them.
- The Avs played with more emotion and attitude than the Canucks, who already had the Northwest Division title sown up.
- Spiritual results are also anticipated from the seed of God's word sown in the hearts of the sick through daily prayer and Sunday services.
- Imperceptible Growth of the word sown in the heart, from its earliest stage of development to the ripest fruits of practical righteousness.
- The seed sown is the word of God, here called the word of the kingdom (v. 19): the kingdom of heaven, that is the kingdom; the kingdoms of the world, compared with that, are not to be called kingdoms.
- They have been scattered along the rows of houses like seed in a ploughed furrow, and according to the seed sown, is the crop raised; tears for some, and smiles for others; joy and grief, like unseen spirits, entering with the post.
- The ground in which they are to be sown is then forked over and raked, and a little round firm place is made by pressing the bottom of the saucer of a flower-pot on the ground, and then scattering a few seeds on the firm place, taking great care that the seeds do not lie one upon another.
- The redbud was burning on the Southern slopes; the turf was springing, fresh and green; dandelions were dappling the grass like golden coins sown by a prodigal; violets were beginning to peep from the shelter of leaves caught along the fence-rows; and some favored peach-trees were blushing into pink.