How To Use ploughman In A Sentence
- In their heyday in the Victorian era, these powerhouses of energy could plough 20 times faster than a horse-drawn ploughman and his team and were transported from farm to farm.
- An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
- Ever since British New Wavers Ian Dury and the Blockheads scored with their 1979 single Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) -- which celebrated people like Elvis and the Marx Brothers and pleasures like Ploughman's sandwiches (cheddar cheese and a pickle) and "coming out of chokey" (solitary confinement) -- inquiring minds have wondered about parts one and two. Michael Sigman: Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 1)
- “Every farmer his own plowman while sitting on his front porch,” Dick baffled back. CHAPTER XVI
- To lay aside the world's distressing cares at sunset, to wipe his moistened brow, and "homeward plod his weary way" to his cabin small and lowly, where glows this cheerful love in one dear breast, in one sweet face, is to the uncouth "ploughman" a joy, a comfort, which many a prince doth envy. The Doctor's Daughter
- Bill, who died following a long illness was a black smith by trade and an expert ploughman who won many ploughing competitions at county level as well as the All Ireland Ploughing Championship in Limerick in 1948.
- You and your class will not spend a merry hour when these words are turned into deeds and Peter the Plowman grows weary of swinking in the fields and takes up his bow and his staff in order to set this land in order. Sir Nigel
- Whereby Sir John, and the keeper, and the steward, and the gardener, and the ploughman, and the dairymaid, and all the hue-and-cry together, went on ahead half a mile in the very opposite direction, and inside the wall, leaving him a mile off on the outside; while Tom heard their shouts die away in the woods and chuckled to himself merrily. The Water Babies
- He chewed the cheese and the lettuce leaf, and cursed every ploughman in England for choosing to dine upon such swill. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
- James was a hard-working farmer, who was a champion ploughman and cattle breeder.
