plough through
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of residents can be seen walking through the knee-high floodwater along the popular Lagos Bridge, while most vehicles are unable to plough through the high volume of water.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
"It confirms Hermes's superior ability to plough through adverse demand trends, leveraging its high brand desirability and waiting lists for iconic products," he said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2023
"But she will always put her head down and plough through them. The Queen has always lived by the doctrine, 'This too shall pass.' "
From Fox News ● Mar. 17, 2022
His project, which aims to develop cereals that use nitrogen from the soil more efficiently, will plough through tests of hundreds of transgenes using the old, cumbersome methods.
From Nature ● Nov. 1, 2016
The next time we sent the plough through the first crust and drove a wind-pocket maybe forty or fifty yards and hit the ice with the seven engines jamming into us.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
