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
The trade in Indian star tortoises now provides cover for trade in species that are even more at risk: Madagascar’s radiated tortoise and ploughshare tortoise, both critically endangered.
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
Mayhap he turned his sword to ploughshare; but perhaps, too, all was combat now.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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