Definition: 1. A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing. 2. Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil. 3. To break and turn over earth especially with a plow.
Use 'plough' in a sentence:
1. The man yoked his plough.
2. I saw a dark brown fertile field in which a plough was cutting large furrows.
3. Mr. Dambar watched her plough through the grass.
4. The IASB will probably plough on and hope the commission backs down.
5. The fields have been ploughed twice.
6. Spring ploughing is in full swing.
7. This is early-20th-century rural Sussex, when horses still pulled the plough.
8. There was not one inch of soil that was not under the plough.
9. About 70 per cent of its profits are being ploughed back into the investment programme.
10. The great ship ploughed across the ocean.
11. Farmers have always relied on seasonal workers to plough the fields and pick the crops.
12. Many are self-steering, use GPS to cross a field, and can even "talk" to their implements—a plough or sprayer, for example.
13. The ship ploughed through the waves.
14. After that you can start again on mathematics, until is it is time to learn to plough.
15. Two months later he bent himself to the study of drawing and painting as others would bend to the plough.
16. The car ploughed through three gardens and flattened a tree.
17. The spring ploughing is going full steam ahead.
18. You must go down to earth and help man plough, so that they will be able to get three meals a day.
19. The government is more than adept at ploughing its own diplomatic furrow.
20. "Yes. It's true," the ox says. "But if I don't plough, what do you guard?"
21. I don't like knowing that five-year-olds can snow plough, but I can't.
22. The King, however dispirited, ploughs on.
23. With the advent of the plough, however, farming became the work of men.
24. Caterpillar, a maker of vehicles that dig, pull or plough, is shifting some of its excavator production from abroad to Texas.
25. The water buffalo squelched up and down the paddy fields, pulling the plough.
26. It will not be easy, but Mr Erdogan seems determined to plough on.
27. Cale has ploughed a more esoteric furrow as a recording artist.
28. The plough was heavier than the tools formerly used by farmers.
29. The soil sticks to the blade and blocks the plough.
30. Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth--rain or shine.
31. Farmers plough their fields in the middle of the night, and children are out playing after midnight.
32. Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute.
33. The field ploughs well after the rain.
34. Others, including sorghum, millet, roots and tubers, benefit less from the use of the plough.
35. Its Leopards will reportedly be equipped to plough through cars.
36. Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east.
37. Did the plough cause attitudes to be formed, in other words, or did existing attitudes lead to its adoption?
38. They were no longer using mules and horses to plough their fields.
39. Merck closed the regular hours trading day down 6% and Schering-Plough lost more than 11%.
40. We must finish measuring the land before spring ploughing.
41. One city boy is upset. The other figures it is not so bad: he wouldn't want to plough that fast anyway.
42. A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
43. Rather, it was a fundamental change in the technology the Mesopotamians used to produce food: the adoption of the plough.
44. They ploughed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland.
45. He used to watch body building videos and plough through a daily diet of a dozen eggs and four pints of milk.
46. You can start again on mathematics, until is it is time to learn to plough.
47. The Chancellor has opted to plough on with policies that could run his coalition on to the rocks.
48. No one was listening to her, but she ploughed on regardless.
49. The government has ploughed more than$ 20 billion into building new schools.
50. I had to plough through dozens of legal documents.
51. The field had been ploughed and planted with corn.
52. The more ploughing and weeding, the better the crop.
53. It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.
54. The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed.
55. When we arrive, we see a motorized plough sitting in a sea of weeds.
56. He claimed he ploughed all his money into his antique business.
57. Researchers have ploughed through 16,000 different pieces of classical, rock and jazz music.
