Sentence examples for as a plow from inspiring English sources

"I told him to think of himself as a plow mule because this is a plow-mule job.

The antlion larva digs a funnel-shaped pit (from 2.5 to 5 cm [1 to 2 inches] deep and 2.5 to 7.5 cm [1 to 3 inches] wide at the edge) by using its oval, sandy-gray abdomen as a plow and heaping the loosened particles on its large square head and throwing them clear of the pit.

The entire offense acted as a human plow, chipping at the snow with cleats to clear a spot for Vinatieri's winning kick.

Tall Hana Soukupova, in a dress with a ruffled train, looked as if she were pulling a plow.

Art imitates life imitating art: "boustrophedon" describes the path that a plow takes as it moves back and forth in a field, the same serpentine path followed by rivers and by classical manuscripts that alternate between left-right and right-left lines of text.

As Natalie Desch, as a seeker, plows across the stage, dancers in Katherine McDowell's sensible shoes and tweedy outfits jump out in swift elbow-swinging skips.

In a refreshing non sequitur, the dancers suddenly make rowing gestures and propel themselves across the stage as a man plows along, his feet under the bodies of dancers who serve as his shoes.

The nano-SiO2 has outstanding mechanical properties especially in terms of hardness (Vickers hardness 1000 kgf/mm2); therefore, the excess hard nano-SiO2 as an abrasive plows the soft magnesium alloy surfaces (Vickers hardness 66.7 kgf/mm2) under the applied load.

In the U.S., a moldboard plow was designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1784, patented by Charles Newfold in 1796, and marketed in the 1830s as a cast iron plow by a blacksmith named John Deere.

Although the Americas had several indigenous animal species that were domesticated, none were of an appropriate size or temperament for use as draft animals; as a result, the plow and other technology reliant on heavy traction were unknown.

However, my heart is racing as I plow through a few emails trying not to rush my responses and give time to flesh out my thoughts.