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"Plough" in a Sentence (36 examples)
Better to have one plough going than two cradles.
He exchanged a plough for a sword.
Can city-boys plough?
Yoke the oxen to the plough.
Everything between the two girls, and the man and team at plough upon the ridge of land, where they showed against the sky as if they were the last things in the world — seemed dancing too.
Men whistled at the plough; [gleaners and haymakers were seen in quiet groups at work;] sheep and oxen pastured; boys whooped and called, in fields, to scare away the birds.
I look out on the brilliant heaven, and see a milky way of powdery splendour wandering through it, and clusters and knots of stars and planets shining serenely in the blue frosty spaces; and the armed apparition of Orion, his spear pointing away into immeasurable space, gleaming overhead; and the familiar constellation of the Plough dipping down into the west; and I think when I go in again that there is one Christmas the less between me and my grave.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. 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.
He promised that, if he were so happy as to obtain her as his wife, he was prepared to offer him the handsomest gifts which a herdsman could bestow — a yoke of oxen fit for the plough, four hives of bees, fifty young apple trees for planting, the hide of an ox already tanned as well as a weaned calf annually.
I can play well on the pipe, I can prune vines, I can dig, I can plant, I can plough, and I can winnow.
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Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake
The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
The central theme of low-till agriculture is that the plough is not always necessary and that it should be used only when truly appropriate.
It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily]
If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.
Rising in the north-east fairly high in the sky, Arcturus may be found by following round the curve of the plough.
To many generations of rice farmers in rural Java, Indonesia, it was not the stars of Ursa Major that formed the plough, but the stars of Orion.
Across the Atlantic, what we call the Big Dipper has been called many other names. In England, this grouping of stars is seen as the plough.
Consider the Big Dipper, or as it is also known, the plough or the wagon.
c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
I've still got to plough that field.
That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
Wolves continued to plough forward as young Belgian midfielder Mujangi Bia and Ronald Zubar both hit shots wide from good positions.
Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires. A tripwire was installed on this section of Shenfield-Southend line to warn train drivers of instances such as this.
My brother ploughed me over.
Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck.
Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.
With speed we plough the watery way.
The good Professor scolded, predicted that they would all be either gulfed or ploughed.
You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls.
I knew one of that lot at Corpus; in fact, we were crammed by the same tutor for "smalls," and both got ploughed.
I love just getting ploughed face down on my bed.
If you don't use rubbers when you're plowing someone's throat, don't bother answering this ad.
Later on, as I walked home / The Plough was showing, and Orion
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