Sentence examples for was plowed up from inspiring English sources

There were numerous sightings in the 19th century before most of the native prairie was plowed up for wheat.

The land is plowed up and herbicided, destroying natural vegetation and driving out most of its creatures.

Blue- and black-tinted glass-and-marble office blocks are displacing the villas that used to make up the city's poshest neighborhoods; vineyards are being plowed up to make way for shopping malls and American-style subdivisions.

Romney Marsh, one of the world's finest natural grasslands, is famous for its sheep, but a section of it has been plowed up for the production of spring flowers and bulbs.

Environmentalists argue that since forests can always be cut down as well as planted, and soils can always be plowed up as well as conserved, the terrestrial biosphere is not nearly as secure a carbon reservoir as the underground reservoirs where coal, oil and gas are contained.

He's supposed to have been in the fields one day, and he's plowed up a little mouse and he sat down and he cradles the mouse, and this is what he said: "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie!/O what a panic's in thy breastie!/ Thou need na start awa sae hasty,/Wi' bickering bratlle!

"A lot of times [fossils] will be plowed up and they won't be recognized," Sertich said.

They are plowing up areas previously used for grazing cattle or set aside for conservation because they had been deemed too wet, too sandy or too hilly for farming.

Farmers were plowing up the Trail bit by bit, and as towns and cities grew along it, the Trail vanished under streets and buildings.

It was plowed constantly".

The land was plowed once and harrowed twice.