How to Use thresher in a Sentence

thresher

noun
  • Her husband, Steve, is armed with a small metal thresher that strips the cobs in seconds flat.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The problem is that threshers brawl, often leaping ten feet in the air during the battle.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
  • 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
  • Skomal said threshers make good eating and are prized by recreational fishermen.
    — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • His team plans to build 50 threshers to distribute for feedback before mass-producing them.
    — National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Gayford’s team included one of these regionally endothermic sharks — the thresher — in the dataset.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Other samples contained vulnerable species of shark, including the spinner, lemon, common thresher and blacktip shark.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Like the power looms, automated threshers, and robotic assembly lines before them, platform technologies are not neutral.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • Like other species of shark, threshers are endangered primarily due to overfishing, bycatch, and habitat degradation.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 Atlantic Shark Institute monitors great white, mako, thresher, porbeagle, blue, spinner, and blacktip.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Recent coverage included an article about a thresher exhibition and an exposé of a scam involving supposedly free Covid tests.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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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