Sentence examples for a ploughing from inspiring English sources

By contrast a highlight of Mr Ignatieff's diary was a ploughing contest in rural Ontario.

"We pass shepherds whistling to their dogs, men in flat caps playing bowls, gulls wheeling around a ploughing tractor.

He's clearly a game old boy, because apparently the agriculture minister once had to rescue him when a horse dragged him across a field during a ploughing contest - Brazauskas has satisfied himself with gentle glad-handing at Sartai since then.

A ploughing tillage system with low organic input was assessed, for which the main crops were spring wheat, green pea, forage maize, along with cover crops of different legume and non-legume species.

John Hill, a ploughing grandee, three-time world champion and current chair of the British Society of Ploughmen, compared it to figure skating – you start from a point of perfection and lose points for mistakes that are as obvious and irredeemable as a sprawl on the ice.

It was found that scratches produced by a "ploughing" mechanism where there was significant plastic deformation beneath the scratch showed higher work hardening and tensile residual stresses than those produced by a "cutting" mechanism where there was little plastic deformation of the material.

He bounced me off like snow off a plough.

Like a plough left out in a fallow field.

A lonely farmer tills his field with a plough dragged by two horses.

For twenty years the bar sagged in the middle like a plough mule's back.

Their bones would turn up, if at all, years later under a plough.