FURROW in a Sentence

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51 example sentences for FURROW, such as:

1. Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track.
2. A furrow or groove is formed by running water.
3. Hunger arising from the furrow, and disease from the stream.
4. There's the varnish, too, like earth on each side of a furrow.
5. A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.

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 Meanings and Examples of FURROW
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furrow
 n.  trench in the earth made by a plow; any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; wrinkle on the face
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  He can't no more keep a plow straight in a furrow than little Beau can, and what he don't know about makin things grow would fill a book.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
2  She followed a furrow between low wheat blades and a field of rye which showed silver lights as it flowed before the wind.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a cannon-ball, missent, becomes a plough-share and turns up the level field.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
4  In this dilemma, Uncas lighted on the furrow of the cannon ball, where it had cut the ground in three adjacent ant-hills.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
5  The men took positions behind a curving line of rifle pits that had been turned up, like a large furrow, along the line of woods.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  The Tyrians are hot at work to trace the walls, to rear the citadel, and roll up great stones by hand, or to choose a spot for their dwelling and enclose it with a furrow.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
7  Long shall be thine exile, and weary spaces of sea must thou furrow through; and thou shalt come to the land Hesperia, where Lydian Tiber flows with soft current through rich and populous fields.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
8  For you there is rest in store, and no ocean floor to furrow, no ever-retreating Ausonian fields to pursue.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
9  Clytoneus came in first by a long way; he left every one else behind him by the length of the furrow that a couple of mules can plough in a fallow field.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
10  Now, involuntarily it seemed, he cut more and more deeply into the soil like a plough, so that he could not be drawn out without turning aside the furrow.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 10
11  There's the varnish, too, like earth on each side of a furrow.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
12  His brows knit together into a wedge-like furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his underlip.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
13  A deep furrow ran across his forehead, and standing by a window he stared over his spectacles seeing no one.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVII
14  Hunger arising from the furrow, and disease from the stream.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
15  I've seen niggers drop dead in the furrow, but they were kicked aside, and the plough never stopped.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  A furrow or groove is formed by running water.
2  "The furrow followed free" is an example of alliteration.
3  A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.
4  Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track.