1 They had mowed down the long grass in the field.

2 Men mowed the wide lawns and seeded them.

3 Gunmen mowed down 10 people in one attack.

4 They mowed the field so as to provide the cattle with fodder.

5 The lorry's brakes failed, and it mowed down several people in the bus queue.

6 The enemy was mowed down in heaps.

7 The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement.

8 Every Saturday morning - weather permitting - he mowed the lawn.

9 Submachine guns mowed down students by the hundreds, perhaps by the thousands.

10 One who'd probably mowed the nurses down in his student days, too, she thought with a flash of insight.

11 I remember ow indefatigably he mowed the lawn, even on a hot summer's day.

12 The grass was mowed, the flower beds were weeded and edged.

13 In most parks, grass is kept nicely mowed.

14 Then they were mowed down with high-powered firearms, he said.

15 But a kid who mowed his lawn, a member of the Dead's road crew, had suggested that he go to the auction.

16 His war machine had mowed down resistance in most of Europe.

17 Neighbours spoke to each other as they mowed their lawns.

18 On his behalf Teddy had mowed the lawn, punched the bullies, purchased beer, chauffeured, chided, counselled, consoled.

19 Mopped and mowed at, as their train worms through a tunnel.

20 I liked the back of the farm like that, and only kept the field mowed for volleyball and baseball.

21 Families, houses, and green lawns that had to be mowed in summer and raked in the fall.

22 Many also worked in libraries or dormitory kitchens, or mowed lawns.

23 His shoes made a kind of sick, gluey sound in the perfectly mowed grass.

24 Or Arthur McAlister; who had taken the responsibility of having their lawn mowed and keeping the house in good repair.

25 I put a Town Center, some Outposts, and some units in that area and set up a killing zone that automatically mowed down the attacking force time after time with little effort on my part.

26 From the outside, the structure appears abandoned; the paint is peeling, and the lawn hasn't been mowed in a year.

27 Mr. Vilot, sporting an extreme crew cut—better to see the "99%" mowed across the back of his head—seemed unbothered.

28 Others may fall around us like leaves, or be mowed down by the scythe of Time like grass: these are but metaphors to the unreflecting,[] buoyant ears and overweening presumption of youth.

29 When triplex greens mowers are used, the final "clean-up" cut around the perimeter of the green should be mowed on alternate days.

30 We drove to a neighborhood of neatly kept ranch-style houses, where cactuses and birds-of-paradise grew on freshly mowed lawns.

1 They had mowed down the long grass in the field.

31 When the alfalfa needed to be mowed and baled, amused neighbors would stop by with their tractors and help out.

32 The mowed grass on the slope between the hedge and the highway suggests that the family takes pride in its modest farmstead.

33 I often mowed grass or cut durra leaf in spring and summer and carried them on the back to the Erdaye's to feed his old scalper.

34 Unexpectedly, mother had mowed two baskets of "pigweed" for less than half a hour.

35 Just before the start of play today, the groundsman mowed the pitch.

36 The grass is barely mowed in time for his visit, and of course there are no flowers planted.

37 If you mowed your lawn every day, the grass would become thin and patchy.

38 He was driven mad by the screams of blades of grass being mowed.

39 Much of that land is already in grass in the east, and mowed regularly.