plough

Example Sentences

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The EU needs to plough more money into its digital and green transitions as well as defence, faced with rising global instability.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

A large snow plough would continue working to clear the Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh line where drifts were up to 1.2m deep in places, it said.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

Foxconn has seen profits soar as it shifts focus from low-margin iPhone assembly to artificial intelligence servers that are now in huge demand as firms plough hundreds of billions of dollars into the technology.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

It soon rendered fields impossible to plough, as lines of the goblet-shaped bushes, many of them three feet across, formed impenetrable natural fences in the paths of tractors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

When I sat down to have my breakfast beside my plough, I heard sudden bangs, as if from gun-fire.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan