ploughshare
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Ploughshare tortoises, which are native to Madagascar, are one of the world's rarest animals, with fewer than 300 remaining in the wild.
From BBC • Jul. 5, 2022
And Ploughshare men are sure that they can blast a wide sea-level canal in a couple of years at a fraction of the cost of conventional digging.
From Time Magazine Archive
With these and other shots, Ploughshare scientists built up a body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ploughshare has yet to dig any canal-like ditches with long lines of nuclear explosions, but it has experimented elaborately with chemical shots and believes it knows the basic laws that govern both kinds of blasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The very next week I was took on the London, Highshare, and Ploughshare railway, and that through the gent who got me discharged from the Great Central, which happened this way.
From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by Fenn, George Manville
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