plough into

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • May 20, 2023

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 like to think that, if asked in advance, most people would choose not to plough into the kids.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2016

India, originally snug with Madagascar, sped northwards to plough into Asia, thrusting ancient seafloor up into Himalayan peaks.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2013

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