plow under
Example Sentences
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With the onset of the coronavirus, many farmers were forced to plow under crops or dump their milk, even as grocery store shelves emptied out and many American families went hungry.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021
Large scale corporate operations will deny access to hunters and for certain plow under the grassed waterways and seasonally inundated wetland in favor of maximizing production.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2016
It is cooking with imperfect vegetables that farmers might otherwise plow under.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2015
It was: Let the South plow under one-third of its cotton crop.
From Time Magazine Archive
You don't get quite the same benefit from the green manure when you pasture as when you plow under.
