ploughshare
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As filming was finishing, the conservancy became home to the first ploughshare births in captivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It might be those ploughshare tortoises, 75 of which were stolen from a successful Madagascar breeding facility in 1996, rendering them virtually extinct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
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 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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