Examples of plow under in a Sentence
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The curious atala comeback South Florida is home to many imperiled butterflies, many victims of the habitat loss — like the destruction of Miami-Dade’s pine rockland forests, which have been largely plowed under for suburban development.
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Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 13 July 2024
This unneeded Penn South, plowing under Block 780, will cost $17 billion and probably much more.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
Most immediately, there were the troubling optics of paying farmers to plow under their crops at a time when so many were going hungry.
—Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
The first crash occurred in 2016, when a Tesla plowed under a semi-truck on a U.S. route in Florida.
—Jeremy B. Merrill, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
In one case, expected to go before a jury in the coming months, a 50-year-old man driving on Autopilot was killed when his Tesla plowed under a semi truck.
—Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
Consider all the Florida citrus groves plowed under to make room for housing developments and, more recently, the arrival of a greening disease, Huanglongbin, with 80 percent of the Florida citrus industry's trees afflicted and no cure yet found.
—Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2023
With the onset of the coronavirus, many farmers were forced to plow under crops or dump their milk, even as grocery store shelves emptied out and many American families went hungry.
—New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
This spring, horrified Americans watched farmers dump milk and plow under vegetables, but the story of food waste and the novel coronavirus didn’t end there.
—Rachael Jackson, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 13 July 2024
This unneeded Penn South, plowing under Block 780, will cost $17 billion and probably much more.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
Most immediately, there were the troubling optics of paying farmers to plow under their crops at a time when so many were going hungry.
—Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
The first crash occurred in 2016, when a Tesla plowed under a semi-truck on a U.S. route in Florida.
—Jeremy B. Merrill, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
In one case, expected to go before a jury in the coming months, a 50-year-old man driving on Autopilot was killed when his Tesla plowed under a semi truck.
—Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
Consider all the Florida citrus groves plowed under to make room for housing developments and, more recently, the arrival of a greening disease, Huanglongbin, with 80 percent of the Florida citrus industry's trees afflicted and no cure yet found.
—Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2023
With the onset of the coronavirus, many farmers were forced to plow under crops or dump their milk, even as grocery store shelves emptied out and many American families went hungry.
—New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
This spring, horrified Americans watched farmers dump milk and plow under vegetables, but the story of food waste and the novel coronavirus didn’t end there.
—Rachael Jackson, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
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“Plow under.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plow%20under. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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