Example Sentences

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Brazilian investors have been plowing money into fixed income assets as benchmark interest rates reached 13.75%.

From Reuters • Dec. 27, 2022

Companies have been plowing more of their cash into buying their own stock even as they’ve grappled with rising inflation, higher interest rates and the potential for stunted economic growth.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2022

Over 1,216� acres of what had been for years either swamp or unregenerate dump heap, squads of workers have been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Diary:—For a day or two we have been plowing among an invisible vast wilderness of islands, catching now and then a shadowy glimpse of a member of it.

From Following the Equator — Part 1 by Twain, Mark

I have been plowing so I could set peach trees, but I have been told that they will not grow.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)