plough into

Example Sentences

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One of the dozens of funds which raises real cash to plough into crypto, joyously "rang the opening bell", despite their share price already having slumped.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

If we freeze and do nothing, the train will plough into us.

From Salon • May 20, 2023

Bannon gave no indication of how much money he intended to plough into the project, nor where funding would come from.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2018

Persistently high rates of profit give big firms plenty of money to plough into fancy research labs, but also suggest that the competitive pressures which might prompt them to exploit the resulting discoveries are weak.

From Economist • Sep. 28, 2017

I have a strong faith that his farming was of the higgledy-piggledy order; I do not believe that he could have set a plough into the sod, or have made a good "cast" of barley.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various