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ploughed

[ UK /plˈa‍ʊd/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫaʊd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow
    plowed fields

How To Use ploughed In A Sentence

  • Well, I hobbled along, and we ploughed all day; and come night, I boohooed and cried a good deal, and the children gits round me, and asks 'What's the matter, Peter?' Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.
  • We had to walk across a ploughed field.
  • My fingertips at this point were being sliced to the bone on the cheesewire strings but with usual English politeness i ploughed on now wanting fiona to hurray up. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing.
  • Fields went unploughed as the men who usually did this were victims of the disease.
  • A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
  • It is a northern animal, nocturnal, and rarely seen, but not uncommon; they are frequently found in ploughed grasslands. Rural Hours
  • Last week a car ploughed into a lamp post leaving two men fighting for their lives, although it has not been suggested the car was speeding.
  • The volume of land that is being ploughed each year is getting greater, and the tree loss just that bit more, all conspiring to wash more soil into the river each winter.
  • Profits, he said, had been ploughed back into the business, re-equipping the warehouse and expanding the sales team.
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