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

But, despite the bloodbath of recent weeks, this is no time to lose confidence, he might think; he must plough on with an iron fist.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 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

Wheat he gave him and rice and cabbage seed and he said, “Tomorrow I will come and plough your land with my good ox.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck