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• We could stop for a coffee, or plough on to the hotel.From the entry plough on
• I ploughed through two helpings, but then I didn't have room for any more.From the entry plough through
• If you can plough through the first three chapters, then the plot starts to get interesting.From the entry plough through
• The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.From the entry ridge
• Pa went to town to buy a new plough.From the entry go to town
• The lorry ploughed into the line of stationary cars.From the entry plough into
• The car ploughed into a bridge side on.From the entry side on
• “The islands have been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.”2025, Peter Ross, “Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland’s Stone Age Settlements. In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the…. From the entry abysm
• The surface is first broken with a cultivator fitted with broad blades, a plough, or a broadshare.1944 ·, Arthur John Brookes, Farming Equipment, page 52. From the entry broadshare
• This implement is used in some districts instead of the plough or “chankol.”1919, Straits Settlements. Dept, “Bulletin”, in Agriculture. From the entry abstrude
• We have only yoked one buffalo to the plough up till now.1918, Rudyard Kipling, “The Fumes of the Heart”, in The Eyes of Asia, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, pages 37–38. From the entry yoke
• This subscriptive system of ploughing was seen as creating the need for a division of ploughed land between those involved.2019, Trevor Rowley, The Origins of Open Field Agriculture, page 131. From the entry subscriptive
• We had stopped in a newly ploughed mealie (maize) field, out in the open, sticking out like dog's balls.2014, Andrew Balaam, Bush War Operator, page 52. From the entry stick out like dog's balls
• You need more than gritters, you need ploughs.2009 February 4, “Letters: Sledging, shovels and snowdrops”, in The Guardian. From the entry gritter
• Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28. From the entry harrow
• It had come out of the earth, this silver—out of his earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself on.1931 April 23, Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, chapter III, in The Good Earth, 3rd British edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1931…. From the entry wring
• It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.1922, “An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor”, in The Commercial Motor, volume 34, Temple Press, page 32. From the entry bout
• Both spring and fall ploughing produced a crop freer from weeds than where the seed was stubbled in.1922, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Research Station, Lacombe, Alta, Interim Report of the Superintendent, page 65. From the entry stubble
• The cheerless sight, sometimes met, of land once cleared and ploughed, now overgrown by the stunted wodgil, pointed a moral.1921, Gordon Taylor, The Agricultural Bank and Industries Assistance Board, Or, Government Loans to Farmers in Western Australia, page 62. From the entry wodgil
• He ploughs on, figure accentuated in deep impasto, across a field cast in blue shadow, chrome yellow corn merging with the sun.2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The…. From the entry impasto
• Many feel they cannot take time off as this would only serve to make things financially worse, and so they plough on.2024 January 10, Jo Kaye, “Greater support for the railway family”, in Railway Magazine, number 1000, page 50. From the entry time off
• His white-locked head shaking from side to side, the man was moaning: “They ploughed up the common and me wennel Bu′′ercup died.2010, J. A. Noble, The Lime Walk: A Story of Norfolk Family Life in the Regency Era, page 147. From the entry wennel
• In the Middle Ages, when fields in the Norfolk chalk and Oxford clay outcrops of England were ploughed, they would appear after a thunderstorm.2007 February 12, “Fossils: myths, mystery and magic”, in Belfast Telegraph, page 1. From the entry devil's finger
• Distinctiveness and individuality are not the same as individualism, in which the determination to plough one's own furrow regardless can be a threat to unity.2001, Pamela Evans, The Overcommitted Christian: Serving God Without Wearing Out. From the entry plough one's own furrow
• The archegetic audacity of the first ship that dared plough the waves of the sea is presented with the features of an act of hybris.1994, The Classical Tradition and the Americas, page 258. From the entry archegetic
• Most people, it can be allowed, acquire an ox for purposes of ploughing, and a gorer is not satisfactory for that purpose.1992, Roman A. Ohrenstein, Barry Gordon, Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature: Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics, E.…. From the entry gorer
• As a matter of "education (or re-education)" of his farmers, a landlord (barin) was demonstrating them a new plough he has purchased in Germany.1992 September 6, Mark Markish x2799, “Organic Russia”, in soc.culture.soviet (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jul 2025. From the entry barin
• In very faulted seam zones unduly high power ontakes of the plough drives showed that the set values were already too high.1982, Glückauf: Volume 118, Issues 19-24. From the entry ontake
• Sail-like, the oast-house towers of Horsmonden seem almost to plough the rich soil of their Kentish hopfield like graceful yachts on a gently rolling sea.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 227, photo caption. From the entry cowl
• Engines with heavy snow ploughs are ordered to raise steam to a state of readiness, and freight trains may be cancelled or permissive loadings halved.1960 January, M. Harbottle, “Maintaining Services after Heavy Snowfalls”, in Railway Magazine, page 10. From the entry tractive

Meaning of plough

1. noun A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
2. noun A joiner's plane for making grooves.
3. noun A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

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Questions about plough in a sentence

How do you use plough in a sentence?

Plough is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.”

What is a short sentence with plough?

“My brother ploughed me over.”

What does plough mean?

Plough means a device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.