PLOW in a Sentence
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41 example sentences for PLOW, such as:
1. The cut worm forgives the plow.
2. Not even if I have to plow myself.
3. Never put the plow before the oxen.
4. Ashley wasn't bred to plow and split rails.
5. Farmer Jones will plow his east field next week.
2. Not even if I have to plow myself.
3. Never put the plow before the oxen.
4. Ashley wasn't bred to plow and split rails.
5. Farmer Jones will plow his east field next week.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PLOW
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plow
n. a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
v. to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up their fences.
2 No, they fought for swelling acres, softly furrowed by the plow, for pastures green with stubby cropped grass, for lazy yellow rivers and white houses that were cool amid magnolias.
3 The withered stalks of last year's cotton had to be removed to make way for this year's seeds and the balky horse, unaccustomed to the plow, dragged unwillingly through the fields.
4 The horse was for work, to drag logs from the woods, to plow and for Pork to ride in search of food.
5 Not even if I have to plow myself.
6 She remembered the feel of plow handles between her inexperienced, blistered palms and she felt that Hugh Elsing was deserving of no special sympathy.
7 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.
8 Ashley wasn't bred to plow and split rails.
9 But, no--Ashley's place was no more behind a counter than it was behind a plow.
10 Only one acre was being farmed now where once a hundred had been under the plow.
11 When the Negro farm hand who was plowing in the field heard it he took the mule from the plow and fled.
12 They looked out across the endless acres of Gerald O'Hara's newly plowed cotton fields toward the red horizon.
13 The rolling foothill country of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the river bottoms.
14 It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
15 The carriage plowed its way farther and halted for a moment to permit two ladies with baskets of bandages on their arms to pick precarious passages across the sloppy street on stepping stones.
Example Sentence:
1 I don't wish to yoke to him in marriage, as if we were cattle pulling a plow.
2 The first settlers wrote home glowing reports of the New World, praising its vast acres of arable land ready for the plow.
3 Farmer Jones will plow his east field next week.
4 The plow is a long beam with a most primitive share in the middle, a cow at one end, and a boy at the other.
5 Never put the plow before the oxen.
6 Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
7 The cut worm forgives the plow.