Example Sentences

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Plows are hugely important; they opened up areas to cultivation that would be too rocky or the soil too hard to support crops normally.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

An Alhambra hardware store put up a sign that said, ‘Snow Plows for Rent — Hurry!’

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2019

Plows cleared a heavily traveled road; ambulances and trucks were able to get through, but few other vehicles were moving.

From Time • Jan. 23, 2016

Plows made short work of the snow on major suburban highways emptied of school buses and commuters.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2015

Plows and harrows, rakes and hoes, were the dynamics even of ancient farming; and the men that invented and made them were greater than farmers.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey