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ploughed into

vb. (en-pastplough into)

Usage examples of "ploughed into".

Spread out before him was a panorama of tilled fields, of orchards in blossom, the rising mound of Montmajour, fertile valleys ploughed into thousands of deep furrows, all converging at some distant point in infinity.

He jerked round as a great ball smashed through the bulwark and ploughed into the men at the larboard nine-pounders.

A ball must have ploughed into one of the Fairfax's own boats and cut it in two even as the released Frenchmen tried to row the wounded to safety.

Then he felt a mallet blow as the ball ploughed into the ribs of the grey mare an inch from his knee.

He knew there weren't any reefs ahead of him, and as we ploughed into it there was a sort of white mist across the bows and then it was gone and all we saw after that was streaks of light and a lot of phosphorescence.

I stared at the foot of the iceberg where it ploughed into the floes.

It was when the machine ploughed into the third field that the infuriated owners struck.

I put my head down and fairly flew - a fountain of dirt rose up just ahead of me as a cannon-shot from somewhere ploughed into the nullah hank, and the last thing I remember is the horse rearing up, and something smashing into my left arm with a blinding pain.

The tanker driver, already unnerved by the careering fire engine, now ladder-less, swerved to avoid the catapulting fireman, and the tanker ploughed into the railway embankment and exploded in time to shower flaming petrol over the last five coaches of the express above.

She ran to the door and another shell ploughed into the north side of the chateau.

It looked like a bulky, downed aircraft, all of a hundred and twenty feet long, its cut-down delta wings ploughed into the gumbo.

The rest is cut and composted and eventually ploughed into the ground as fertilizer.

Its ball screamed towards the exposed Dutch-Belgian troops beyond the sandpit, but fell short and ploughed into a patch of soft ground that stopped the missile dead.

Even as he watched, a third and fourth ploughed into the wreckage.

His car ploughed into the outer lane barrier on the M2 at the Medway Bridge, a hundred feet above that black river.