Sentence examples for plow away from inspiring English sources

But postdocs everywhere find it difficult to escape their indenture and go their own way, and many plow away on their adviser's projects long after they have paid their dues.

The washouts of paved roads is mind-boggling enough but so is seeing areas where the mud has been plowed away from the roads left intact.

By Sunday morning, Dulles International outside Washington was handling arriving flights while still plowing away a thick blanket of snow, and Baltimore-Washington International Airport was trying to restore full operations.

Screeching, clattering and thumping its way along just south of Wilmington, Del., the Amtrak machine lifted and spread the rails, scooped up the rotting wooden ties beneath, plowed away the gravel, plunked down perfect new concrete ties, gently laid the rails back down, and moved on, leaving tracks on which trains will travel at 125 miles an hour, up from 80 miles per hour now.

Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA was not achieved by simply plowing away at the lab, but by incorporating discoveries in biology, chemistry and x-ray diffraction to inform their model building.

The bass rammed against my breastbone as it plowed away in the low register.

Imagine being hunched over in a field all afternoon, plowing away.

The Prose Edda and Heimskringla both report that Gefjon plowed away what is now lake Mälaren, Sweden, and with this land formed the island of Zealand, Denmark.