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Plowed in sentence

34 examples of Plowed in a sentence

An IRA driver was shot, and his car plowed into people on the side of the street.
They toiled with rolled-up sleeves, with their hands deep in debt, they plowed ahead, growing their dreams into reality.
And I operated the mechanical brooms and I plowed the snow.
Amongst other things, we need to stop them from getting plowed down by container ships when they're in their feeding areas, and stop them from getting entangled in fishing nets as they float around in the ocean.
I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed and can any man do more than that?"
Crops are being sown, hoed, reaped, milled, plowed, all in one picture.
Now, this is all a nonprofit enterprise, and so the money that we raise, after we cover the cost of doing the testing and making the kit components, gets plowed back into the project.
Not having resources, not having looks, not having finances can often be the barren soil from which the most productive seeds are painstakingly plowed and harvested.
You can see the rows in the bottom, the way you can see the rows in a field that has just been plowed to plant corn.
Later in the evening he's plowed and tussling with his bimbo gal while his manager, in on the con, shares the evening.
It didn't show how he ate up his 15 minutes while he plowed through Generosa's (or Ted's) money.
Swain is the reason I bought the film, she's always good, but gets plowed under by Philipps.
Just smearing a little dirt on her didn't make her look as if she plowed fields, slaughtered pigs and helped build a town.
By some estimates, it has plowed more than $106 billion into Latin America in recent years, including $60 billion in Brazil alone.
And it has plowed forward with its Belt and Road initiative, a thinly veiled challenge to America’s global primacy.
Tons of food gets plowed under the ground because there’s so much of it farmers can’t get the prices they want.
The soil for authoritarianism and a cult of personality has been plowed under by three decades of increasing openness and economic growth.
Radical Islamists recognized this long ago and plowed their resources into schools.
True, New York City had some significant snowfalls; but no one would have paid much attention had the mayor been more competent in getting the streets plowed.
All profits are plowed back into the company to increase its reach or to improve the product or service that it provides.
All these petty bourgeois activities would be plowed over by the equivalent of today’s Zara, Toyota, Airbus, or Walmart.
The second example involves Germany’s state-owned Landesbanken (regional banks), which, protected by official guarantees, were able to take on debt cheaply and plowed the money into high-risk investment opportunities worldwide.
No-till farming techniques, in which the soil is not plowed, mean less soil erosion, less runoff of agricultural chemicals, and lower fuel consumption and carbon emissions by mechanized farm equipment.
And, having run negative real interest rates, printed money, plowed in liquidity, and subsidized commercial banks, central bankers everywhere – most recently US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke – appear to have concluded that they, too, have reached the limit of what they can do.
As rich people accumulated more wealth, both in personal terms and through the companies they controlled, they plowed some of this money into boosting their own political influence, with a view to increasing their wealth still further.
They plowed resources into the health sector, provided subsidies to businesses, and supplied households with emergency cash transfers.
Each has argued that while enough was remembered to prevent the 1929-size shock of 2008 from producing another Great Depression, many lessons were plowed under by a rightward ideological shift in the years following the crisis.
For three months, during which each day seemed like a century, the Abraham Lincoln plowed all the northerly seas of the Pacific, racing after whales sighted, abruptly veering off course, swerving sharply from one tack to another, stopping suddenly, putting on steam and reversing engines in quick succession, at the risk of stripping its gears, and it didn't leave a single point unexplored from the beaches of Japan to the coasts of America.
We then plowed the waves of the Indian Ocean, vast liquid plains with an area of 550,000,000 hectares, whose waters are so transparent it makes you dizzy to lean over their surface.
Did Captain Nemo view us with distrust in these heavily traveled seas, or did he simply want to hide from the sight of those ships of every nation that plowed the Mediterranean?