ploughshare
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Hope, a ploughshare tortoise, has been given a new home at Chester Zoo after being found in a suitcase by Hong Kong customs officers in 2019.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2022
But when Jamie imagines which object might be sent into space as an emissary to alien cultures, she opts for a Neolithic stone ploughshare.
From Nature ● Sep. 15, 2019
Or a tan ploughshare, of which there are fewer than 200 mature adults left in the wild?
From National Geographic ● Nov. 25, 2015
The radiated tortoise has a starry pattern on its shell, very similar to the Indian star tortoise, and the ploughshare has a protective neck plate below its chin shaped like the blade of a plow.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 25, 2015
The foragers could either run away, abandoning their hunting grounds to field and pasture, or take up the ploughshare themselves.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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