Example Sentences

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“Unfortunately, it appears that you have already decided to press ahead with a duplicative investigation, including by issuing subpoenas, to replow the same ground the Special Counsel has already covered,” Cipollone wrote.

From Fox News • May 15, 2019

CLINTON: Look, I don’t think it’s useful to go back in and replow old ground.

From Time • Nov. 19, 2015

Further, the department must typically replow where car owners have shoveled snow back into the streets.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2010

After the fall rains have softened the soil, plow, harrow, roll, harrow again, then replow and work it again, until the soil is as fine as an onion bed.

From The Cauliflower by Crozier, A. A. (Arthur Alger)

It is good practice to plow down a heavy coat of manure for corn and then to replow the land for alfalfa the next season.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva