FURROW in a Sentence
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51 example sentences for FURROW, such as:
1. Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track.
2. A furrow or groove is formed by running water.
3. Hunger arising from the furrow, and disease from the stream.
4. There's the varnish, too, like earth on each side of a furrow.
5. A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.
2. A furrow or groove is formed by running water.
3. Hunger arising from the furrow, and disease from the stream.
4. There's the varnish, too, like earth on each side of a furrow.
5. A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.
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Meanings and Examples of FURROW
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furrow
n. a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)
v. cut a furrow into a columns
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1 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.
2 She followed a furrow between low wheat blades and a field of rye which showed silver lights as it flowed before the wind.
3 The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a cannon-ball, missent, becomes a plough-share and turns up the level field.
4 In this dilemma, Uncas lighted on the furrow of the cannon ball, where it had cut the ground in three adjacent ant-hills.
5 The men took positions behind a curving line of rifle pits that had been turned up, like a large furrow, along the line of woods.
6 The Tyrians are hot at work to trace the walls, to rear the citadel, and roll up great stones by hand, or to choose a spot for their dwelling and enclose it with a furrow.
7 Long shall be thine exile, and weary spaces of sea must thou furrow through; and thou shalt come to the land Hesperia, where Lydian Tiber flows with soft current through rich and populous fields.
8 For you there is rest in store, and no ocean floor to furrow, no ever-retreating Ausonian fields to pursue.
9 Clytoneus came in first by a long way; he left every one else behind him by the length of the furrow that a couple of mules can plough in a fallow field.
10 Now, involuntarily it seemed, he cut more and more deeply into the soil like a plough, so that he could not be drawn out without turning aside the furrow.
11 There's the varnish, too, like earth on each side of a furrow.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
12 His brows knit together into a wedge-like furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his underlip.
13 A deep furrow ran across his forehead, and standing by a window he stared over his spectacles seeing no one.
14 Hunger arising from the furrow, and disease from the stream.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
15 I've seen niggers drop dead in the furrow, but they were kicked aside, and the plough never stopped.
Example Sentence:
1 A furrow or groove is formed by running water.
2 "The furrow followed free" is an example of alliteration.
3 A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.
4 Truck wheels had dug furrows in the track.