plow under
Example Sentences
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With the onset of the coronavirus, many farmers were forced to plow under crops or dump their milk, even as grocery store shelves emptied out and many American families went hungry.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
Large scale corporate operations will deny access to hunters and for certain plow under the grassed waterways and seasonally inundated wetland in favor of maximizing production.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2016
It is cooking with imperfect vegetables that farmers might otherwise plow under.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2015
Two years ago the Federal Farm Board advised the South to plow under every third row of cotton to reduce the crop and lift price.
From Time Magazine Archive
His brain seemed to plow under, as it does the great events of pain, the impress of hideous suffering which the proximity of the machines caused.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
