PLOW in a Sentence

Learn PLOW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

41 example sentences for PLOW, such as:

1. The cut worm forgives the plow.
2. Not even if I have to plow myself.
3. Never put the plow before the oxen.
4. Ashley wasn't bred to plow and split rails.
5. Farmer Jones will plow his east field next week.

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 Meanings and Examples of PLOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
plow
 n.  farm implement consisting of a heavy blade at the end of a beam
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up their fences.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  No, they fought for swelling acres, softly furrowed by the plow, for pastures green with stubby cropped grass, for lazy yellow rivers and white houses that were cool amid magnolias.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  The withered stalks of last year's cotton had to be removed to make way for this year's seeds and the balky horse, unaccustomed to the plow, dragged unwillingly through the fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  The horse was for work, to drag logs from the woods, to plow and for Pork to ride in search of food.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Not even if I have to plow myself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  She remembered the feel of plow handles between her inexperienced, blistered palms and she felt that Hugh Elsing was deserving of no special sympathy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  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
8  Ashley wasn't bred to plow and split rails.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  But, no--Ashley's place was no more behind a counter than it was behind a plow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  Only one acre was being farmed now where once a hundred had been under the plow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
11  When the Negro farm hand who was plowing in the field heard it he took the mule from the plow and fled.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
12  They looked out across the endless acres of Gerald O'Hara's newly plowed cotton fields toward the red horizon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  The rolling foothill country of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the river bottoms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  The carriage plowed its way farther and halted for a moment to permit two ladies with baskets of bandages on their arms to pick precarious passages across the sloppy street on stepping stones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  I don't wish to yoke to him in marriage, as if we were cattle pulling a plow.
2  The first settlers wrote home glowing reports of the New World, praising its vast acres of arable land ready for the plow.
3  Farmer Jones will plow his east field next week.
4  The plow is a long beam with a most primitive share in the middle, a cow at one end, and a boy at the other.
5  Never put the plow before the oxen.
6  Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
7  The cut worm forgives the plow.