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plough - use in sentences
Object
- furrow: They didn't see us plow a lonely furrow in the Fourth under Harry Gregg.
- field: In the autumn we plow the fields ready for sowing in the spring.
- million: But the man who questioned my investment of 50 cents was content to plow millions into Times Newspapers.
- land: That was good land, good fertile plowing land.
- match: The plowing match was held in two fields near the town.
- strip: The long narrow areas marked on the plan are typical of the plowing strips of open field cultivation.
Converse of object
- pull: You will see mules pulling plows on the terraces preparing the land for planting.
- draw: She was believed to have separated the island of Zealand from Sweden with a plow drawn by four gigantic oxen.
Adjective modifier
- 1: In demesne are 1½ plows and 9 bordars with 1½ plows.
- wooden: At present no less than 5 million wooden plows are in use in our country.
Modifies a noun
- soil: The aim of the surface survey is to collect a representative sample of all types of finds present in the plow soil.
- blade: Change of average particle speed in the cross-sectional plane of a plow blade mixer.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- through: Earning these medals will unlock secret levels to plow through to provide you with, well, more of the same.
- on: Determined not to let it beat me, I plowed on.
Noun used with modifier
- horse-drawn: Showing two horse-drawn plows at work beside one drawn by a tractor.
- furrow: Behind, the Fordson pulls a single furrow plow.
- snow: Our winter service vehicles can all be quickly fitted with snow plows.
- ox: It means " as the ox plows " ( in other words, the direction of lay alternates from line to line ).
- iron: The 1845 report comments that " carts are not uncommon and several good iron plows are in use " .
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