plowing
IPA: pɫˈaʊɪŋ
noun
- Alternative form of ploughing [(agriculture) The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.]
verb
- (snowboarding): riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular.
- ploughing
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Examples of "plowing" in Sentences
- The plowing action of the ball is burnishing.
- But I am plowing through the complaints and the hardship.
- Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
- They would hurry away from their meagre garden plots and stony fields, to begin plowing and sowing.
- UCLA alum Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recalls plowing through the complete Sherlock Holmes collection on his first NBA road trip.
- As a bona fide member of the Baby Boomers, I revelled in plowing new territory in terms of parenting, working, sistering and changing the world.
- Billy worked for three days, and while insisting that he was doing very well, he freely admitted that there was more in plowing than he had thought.
- After 20+ years, I still shudder when I recall plowing through the 1400 typewritten pages unbound of course of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, taking copious notes.
- "We're always open to listening, but ... we're more in sync with the idea of plowing forward," said Jon James, deputy superintendent of the Park Service's George Washington Memorial Parkway division.
- The pulverization of drained land may be produced, partly by deep, or subsoil plowing, which is always necessary to perfect the object of thorough-draining; but it is much aided, in stiff clays, also, by the shrinkage of the soil by drying.
- You can call it plowing new ground, but I think the more salient point is that courts haven’t considered this particular question previously, and a ruling that compulsory purchases goes too far when imposed on commercially inactive individuals, wouldn’t conflict with any previous decision.