plow into
phrasal verb
plowed into; plowing into; plows into
1
: to crash into (someone or something) usually at a high speed
The car plowed into the guardrail.
2
: to invest (money, profits, etc.) in (something)
The company plowed millions of dollars into research.
—often + backFor the first 10 years, the profits were all plowed back into the company.
Examples of plow into in a Sentence
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The Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday, killing six members of a crew that was working on the span, after the Dali cargo ship plowed into one its supports.
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Ben Finley and Brian Witte, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
About 30 seconds later, the ship plowed into one of the bridge’s support pillars, sending portions of mangled metal into the 50-foot-deep Patapsco River below.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
First responders sprang into action, shutting down most traffic on the four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge just before the 95,000 gross-ton vessel plowed into a bridge piling atabout 1:30 a.m., causing multiple sections of the span to bow and snap in a harrowing scene captured on video.
—Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
The ship plowed into the support, with large sections of the bridge’s main truss section instantly snapping apart and falling into the river.
—Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
Despite some controversy around the mountain of cash plowed into the club in the last couple of years, there is a growing expectation that the club will become self-sufficient as football operations regulate.
—Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 3 Apr. 2024
The cargo ship – about the length of three football fields – has as many as 4,000 tons of steel frame hanging on its bow since the ship plowed into the Key Bridge – sending a crew of construction workers plunging to the frigid water below.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
The top priority for security officials throughout the Games will be to prevent a large-scale terrorist attack, like the coordinated suicide bombings and shootings that killed 130 across Paris in 2015, or the truck that plowed into a crowd in Nice, killing 86 people in 2016.
—Rick Noack, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
The forest was plowed into pasture and then left to regrow, the wildlife thinned and replenished by invasive species, the periods of habitation offset by years of abandonment.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
Ben Finley and Brian Witte, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
About 30 seconds later, the ship plowed into one of the bridge’s support pillars, sending portions of mangled metal into the 50-foot-deep Patapsco River below.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
First responders sprang into action, shutting down most traffic on the four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge just before the 95,000 gross-ton vessel plowed into a bridge piling atabout 1:30 a.m., causing multiple sections of the span to bow and snap in a harrowing scene captured on video.
—Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
The ship plowed into the support, with large sections of the bridge’s main truss section instantly snapping apart and falling into the river.
—Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
Despite some controversy around the mountain of cash plowed into the club in the last couple of years, there is a growing expectation that the club will become self-sufficient as football operations regulate.
—Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 3 Apr. 2024
The cargo ship – about the length of three football fields – has as many as 4,000 tons of steel frame hanging on its bow since the ship plowed into the Key Bridge – sending a crew of construction workers plunging to the frigid water below.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
The top priority for security officials throughout the Games will be to prevent a large-scale terrorist attack, like the coordinated suicide bombings and shootings that killed 130 across Paris in 2015, or the truck that plowed into a crowd in Nice, killing 86 people in 2016.
—Rick Noack, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
The forest was plowed into pasture and then left to regrow, the wildlife thinned and replenished by invasive species, the periods of habitation offset by years of abandonment.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
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