Used in a Sentence

gardening

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for gardening.

Editorial note

Toronto is mostly made up of 100-year-old brick houses, so the maintenance is mostly soft stuff like painting, gardening, etc.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gardening gathered in one view.

noun

(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

noun

(by extension) Any process of care, maintenance, or curation, especially digitally.

noun

(cricket) The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with their bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gardening.

noun

(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

noun

(by extension) Any process of care, maintenance, or curation, especially digitally.

noun

(cricket) The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with their bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps.

noun

(RAF, slang, historical) The sowing of mines in water from low altitude.

Example sentences

1

Toronto is mostly made up of 100-year-old brick houses, so the maintenance is mostly soft stuff like painting, gardening, etc.

2

Try various things, maybe it's hiking one week or for some months, maybe after that it's gardening or some classes.

3

Either its programming or gardening, follow your love and get away from the crazy race.

4

Even a volunteer run community garden would if gardening supplies are purchased rather than wrought from supplies indigenous to the land.

5

The old Asian lady down the street can and does when she does her gardening.

6

Often the remainder of it is 'gardening leave' or just paid out as cash.

7

I have a casual interest in gardening and often come across plants I'd love to know the name of.

8

Compost making is an art in and of itself and I enjoy it as much or more than gardening.

9

If you're ok getting about the minimal wage for some gardening, or house cleaning, or trash removal, you probably have good chances (e.g.

10

It makes sense that they'd want to have engineers who were good at gardening the data (tho not necessarily doing robotics/CV-oriented research on it).

11

I don't think a lot of people here want to spend time gardening, but lots of us love fresh vegetables.

12

I never got the full rack on gardening, and one out of date book on Botany?

Quote examples

1

"The single biggest difference I've seen between great programmers and everyone else is a pure love for what they do." This applies to everything, whether it's programming or gardening or sales.

2

The author cites the concept of the "pyramid garden" on top of the Hamburg Bunker which was not rejected because the people were unwilling to change something - it was simply rejected because a corporation tried to get its hands on the real estate under the cover of a urban gardening project [5].

Proper noun examples

1

Gardening, daycare etc don't pay even that well.

2

Gardening is a lot of work - its true - but its also very rewarding work, and one thing I've noticed over the years is that the more you do it, the less you have to do.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use gardening in a sentence?

Toronto is mostly made up of 100-year-old brick houses, so the maintenance is mostly soft stuff like painting, gardening, etc.

What does gardening mean?

(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

What part of speech is gardening?

gardening is commonly used as noun.