Example Sentences

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Plowing ahead with plans to buy a house using marital assets leaves her vulnerable and gives her soon-to-be-ex leverage in a divorce.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 14, 2025

Plowing and construction are usually the culprits behind missing historical remains, but they can’t explain the loss here.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 2, 2024

Plowing the steep highways and streets that snake through communities of Crestline and Lake Arrowhead was painstaking work.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Plowing them in order to plant crops releases large amounts of that carbon into the atmosphere.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2021

Plowing through snow a foot deep with the oxcart all the way back to Redding was going to be miserable work.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier