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
Since all pesticides approved for use in California have been ineffective against the bug, the best advice agriculture officials can give is for farmers to plow under devastated fields, denying the pests their food sources.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cotton is grown for market, the corn partly to sell, partly to feed, the oats to feed and the cowpeas to plow under.
From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon
