PLOUGH in a Sentence

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67 example sentences for PLOUGH, such as:

1. They were turning the plough over.
2. We had to walk across a ploughed field.
3. The ship ploughed through the sea toward port.
4. They ploughed their profits back into further investment.
5. They ought to finish ploughing the south field by tomorrow.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLOUGH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
plough
 v.  plow
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  Hogben's Folly was still eminent; the very flat, field-parcelled land had changed only in this--the tractor had to some extent superseded the plough.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
3  Digging and delving we break with the share of the plough the clod.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
4  Not a plough had ever disturbed a grain of that stubborn soil.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
5  Their records had perished long ago by the plough, while the works of these remained.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
6  In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
7  Konstantin Levin, whose presence was needed in the plough land and meadows, had come to take his brother in the trap.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
8  Looking towards the plough land across the river, he made out something black, but he could not distinguish whether it was a horse or the bailiff on horseback.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
9  They were turning the plough over.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
10  He earthed up his potatoes with a modern plough borrowed from a neighboring landowner.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 25
11  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
12  Presently Ambrosch said sullenly in English: 'You take them ox tomorrow and try the sod plough.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
13  On some upland farm, a plough had been left standing in the field.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
14  The fields below us were dark, the sky was growing pale, and that forgotten plough had sunk back to its own littleness somewhere on the prairie.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
15  They stood out strengthened and simplified now, like the image of the plough against the sun.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  If they plough on until it's dark, they would get this field finished.
2  Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.
3  It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.
4  Diligence is the mother of good plough deep while shuggards sleep,you will have corn to sell and to keep.
5  It is such a beautiful day; we saw some ships plough across the ocean under warm sun shine.
6  We had to walk across a ploughed field.
7  The ship ploughed through the sea toward port.
8  A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
9  In the last ten years Imperial Oil had ploughed a billion dollars into the Canadian economy.
10  Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east.
11  The peasants ploughed the weeds in the field back to enrich the soil.
12  When the forest was cleared,a lot of small branches were ploughed under.
13  They ploughed their profits back into further investment.
14  The use of horses for ploughing still prevails among the poorer farmers.
15  They ought to finish ploughing the south field by tomorrow.