Use "ploughed" in a sentence

1. He ploughed through the streets followed at some distance by his sister until, with the front door of their modest terraced home shut firmly on the outside world, Danny disappeared into his bedroom to play electronic games

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2. He ploughed through the streets

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3. taken in and, in most cases, the fields already ploughed over, while a

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4. The femme fatale? The car on its roof in a ploughed field?

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5. A portion of this waste land, however, after having been pastured in this wretched manner for six or seven years together, may be ploughed up, when it will yield, perhaps, a poor crop or two of bad oats, or of some other coarse grain ; and then, being entirely exhausted, it must be rested and pastured again as before, and another portion ploughed up, to be in the same manner exhausted and rested again in its turn

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6. Upon other occasions, the order has been reversed ; and a rich field of rice or other grain has been ploughed up, in order to make room for a plantation of poppies, when the chief foresaw that extraordinary profit was likely to be made by opium

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7. “When we touched I jumped over the side and landed in about three feet of water I ploughed my way through it and up to the wire entanglement which was huge

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8. Druantia still hovered high in the sky, her Green Men still ploughed through the dark masses, crushing demon bodies with their feet and fists

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9. Night closed in round Cruzel’s ships as they ploughed their way eastwards

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10. ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and wagons;

11. My feet became a blur as I struggled to drag Uncle Hobart out of its path but it ploughed into us and we were swept off our feet, to be thrown onto its rough timber

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12. As I ploughed through the soft sand onto the firmer part of the shore the gently frothing surf trickled in, barely disturbing the sand as it quickly disappeared; the placid woolly breeze did little to take the edge off the tropical morning air even though it was still only seven am

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13. 17 And in some time after, Cain and Abel his brother, went one day into the field to do their work; and they were both in the field, Cain tilling and ploughing his ground, and Abel feeding his flock; and the flock passed that part which Cain had ploughed in the ground, and it sorely grieved Cain on this account

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14. 58 And when all the Egyptians saw this thing, they went out, each to his field with his yoke of oxen and his ploughshare, and they ploughed it up as one ploughs the Earth at seed time

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15. 59 And when they ploughed they were unable to hurt the infants of the children of Israel, so the people increased and waxed exceedingly

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16. 17 And in some time after Cain and Abel his brother went one day into the field to do their work; and they were both in the field Cain tilling and ploughing his ground and Abel feeding his flock; and the flock passed that part which Cain had ploughed in the ground and it sorely grieved Cain on this account

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17. 58 And when all the Egyptians saw this thing they went out each to his field with his yoke of oxen and his ploughshare and they ploughed it up as one ploughs the Earth at seed time

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18. Every now and again, a strange, dark mass ploughed its way by, and Simon stared at it, torn between curiosity and caution

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19. Gasping for air and nursing a sprained neck, Titus ploughed his way out of the snowdrift to find Athene standing over him with a shining sabre in her hand

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20. The second guard picked up his dropped sword, seeing the threat that had ploughed into them for the first time

21. A pair of vast statues of an enthroned pharaoh and his wife stood unremarked in the middle of a ploughed field

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22. He saw some guys getting beaten up one night so ploughed in to help them—five against one

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23. Ignoring the interruption, Lysander ploughed on

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24. It did take some of the villagers' corn, because that is what it ate, but it made up for it by removing all the little stones from the soil after the farmers had ploughed the fields (the little stones were perfect for filling in the draughty cracks and gaps in the monster's cave)

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25. When the farmers ploughed their fields, they found that the soil was very stony, so the crops did not grow very well

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26. He had made a massive directional change in his mid thirties when he sold up completely and ploughed all his money into of all things a cosmetics company

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27. Eckhart looked out from the cabin of the ‘Seabird’ as it ploughed its way through choppy waters towards the Texas coastline where they set up the fishing rigs and weighed anchor about two miles out of Galveston

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28. two first-impact vehicles and stayed there while two other smaller cars ploughed

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29. his rocky fifteen ploughed

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30. “Really,” interjected John, but Jo ploughed on

31. We had given up our faith and the only thing we could hear during those moments of self doubt, those moments of total silence in the theatre, was the beep, beep, beep of his heart beating away, refusing to give up … and somebody said … they said … ‘come on, if he can keep going, so can we,’ and we all ploughed in again and started drilling and screwing and suturing … and he just lay there in front of us, all in pieces, sleeping like a baby, with his heart beating away when it should have stopped ages before, saying to us, challenging us, and this is the hardest part to accept, giving us strength, silently speaking to us in beeps, saying, hang in there guys, we’ll get through this

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32. “Well, you were trying to save the life of this same girl, when a vehicle ploughed into you

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33. A ploughed field here; a tree

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34. Syd could see nothing but a whirling fog of snow — a whiteout, he thought, and remembered a ski day in Vale where, unable to see, he had ploughed into a tree

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35. It was then that Matilda ploughed her way through the hedge, pushing her way through the tangled branches as if they were candy-floss strands, and made a break for the front door

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36. Among the victims who had ploughed funds into Godley’s Imperial Consolidated Group were

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37. that Syd had ploughed into the search for next big thing

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38. years ploughed copious amounts of time and energy into the country

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39. ploughed field and parked the car behind the hedge

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40. track, bouncing over a ploughed field

41. He ploughed on through the water till his jeep gave up the ghost

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42. The carriage ploughed along slowly through the deep sand between rye that grew more reluctantly every yard

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43. Oak closed his mind to him and instead he watched Denver's determined face as he ploughed on through the forest

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44. Detroit had spun around and grabbed hold of Oak's hair, whilst his other huge fist ploughed into his face, spouting blood from his nose and mouth

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45. Looking out of the window at the following ship, her sails billowing in the wind as she ploughed through the water, he realized that their speed and urgency was to catch them up

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46. Elm regained his balance just as the Captain's fist once more ploughed its way toward him

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47. ” She blurted out and noticed a slight shadow pass over Elm’s face but she ploughed on

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48. It was a productive search too, and the second night he needed a pencil and paper to keep track, as he ploughed through the Notes on the Accounts

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49. So on he ploughed with the current top tasks on the problem list

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50. The first of the proposals looked like a snatch, so he sharpened up his concentration and ploughed in

51. He believed Smythe's story, but he might as well tidy up the loose ends before he ploughed on with the investigation

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52. The house had been sold – there had been no children of the marriage – and he'd ploughed his share into his hospital, where it was being swallowed up with the same despatch as the rest of his money

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53. Whatever money he made from his hospital was ploughed into his research work

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54. He tried to keep his voice as bland as Melville-Briggs's better efforts, but not altogether certain he was successful, he ploughed on, 'I'm sorry you should be so antagonistic, Sir

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55. ploughed on through the drifted snow as fast her aching legs

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56. I just ploughed straight in, never raising my

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57. self on the ploughed field to increase fecundity

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58. The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, Hunger

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59. Then she went across ploughed fields, in which she sank, stumbling; and clogging her thin shoes

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60. Fourteen years had changed the worthy merchant, who, in his thirty-sixth year at the opening of this history, was now in his fiftieth; his hair had turned white, time and sorrow had ploughed deep furrows on his brow, and his look, once so firm and penetrating, was now irresolute and wandering, as if he feared being forced to fix his attention on some particular thought or person

61. Three or four Palikares fell with their bodies literally ploughed with wounds

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62. acres here, and you ’ve ploughed, what, ten? No man can dig over twenty acres

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63. angry he was, and ploughed on

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64. Afterwards, he got into his car, drove several miles in the wrong direction on the motorway and ploughed into a van carrying seven people

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65. Levin got on his horse and rode towards the field where was last year’s clover, and the one which was ploughed ready for the spring corn

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66. But Konstantin Levin found it dull sitting and listening to him, especially when he knew that while he was away they would be carting dung onto the fields not ploughed ready for it, and heaping it all up anyhow; and would not screw the shares in the ploughs, but would let them come off and then say that the new ploughs were a silly invention, and there was nothing like the old Andreevna plough, and so on

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67. It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there

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68. When they came out of the woods, all his attention was engrossed by the view of the fallow land on the upland, in parts yellow with grass, in parts trampled and checkered with furrows, in parts dotted with ridges of dung, and in parts even ploughed

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69. The herd of improved cows such as Pava, the whole land ploughed over and enriched, the nine level fields surrounded with hedges, the two hundred and forty acres heavily manured,

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70. They agreed that the modern plough ploughed better, that the scarifier did the work more quickly, but they found thousands of reasons that made it out of the question for them to use either of them; and though he had accepted the conviction that he would have to lower the standard of cultivation, he felt sorry to give up improved methods, the advantages of which were so obvious

71. Those who worked for her independence have ploughed the sea

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72. A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled

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73. The skies over Merseyside saw considerable aerial combat during the Second World War, and it seems that the ploughed fields of Cheshire and North Wales had yielded up the wreckage of many a downed plane over the years

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74. There was something subdued in Jonathan Kail's tone which had not been there in the day, and lines of concern were ploughed upon his forehead in addition to the lines of years

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75. He looked surprised, but not suspicious, and so she ploughed ahead

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76. Above all, they learned to give the land time to rest after it had been ploughed and harvested

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77. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares

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78. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as when it fell

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79. After a fruitless struggle to get aboard a North-Western train at Chalk Farm--the engines of the trains that had loaded in the goods yard there ploughed through shrieking people, and a dozen stalwart men fought to keep the crowd from crushing the driver against his furnace--my brother emerged upon the Chalk Farm road, dodged across through a hurrying swarm of vehicles, and had the luck to be foremost in the sack of a cycle shop

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80. But ploughed up to the primary rock of the matter, the two great principles laid down in the twin whaling laws previously quoted, and applied and elucidated by Lord Ellenborough in the above cited case; these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will, on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines, has but two props to stand on

81. Levin got on his horse and rode towards the field where was last year's clover, and the one which was ploughed ready for the spring corn

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82. It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there comes at sunset a smell of manure mixed with meadow-sweet, and on the low-lying lands the riverside meadows are a thick sea of grass waiting for the mowing, with blackened heaps of the stalks of sorrel among it

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83. The herd of improved cows such as Pava, the whole land ploughed over and enriched, the nine level fields surrounded with hedges, the two hundred and forty acres heavily manured, the seed sown in drills, and all the rest of it—it was all splendid if only the work had been done for themselves, or for themselves and comrades —people in sympathy with them

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