Example Sentences

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DeGrom, who allowed three runs over 5⅔ innings, had been plowing through the Nationals up to that point with seven strikeouts through three innings.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2017

Beyond the house was a barn and flanking both was the field where the farmer had been plowing.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

We had been plowing through flak as thick as a swarm of bees but we had been lucky.

From A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Laune, Paul

They saw farmers in the fields, turned into images, beside the oxen with which they had been plowing.

From Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Rockwood, Roy

Over a month ago he had been plowing the lower forty of Old Man Huggins's farm.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor