What is "ploughed on"

Usage examples of "ploughed on".

He clung with his remaining strength and resolve to the railing of that goods truck, while the train rocketed over the bridge and ploughed on steadily up the slope, until it burst at last over the crest on to the level ground of the plateau.

I ploughed on after the fast receding stern of the barge with the best speed I could muster.

Every time he opened his mouth, he was howled down, but he ploughed on bravely with his prepared speech, careful not to emphasize that terrorism was on the increase, but droning on about deterrents and the need to support the forces of law and order.

The tanker ploughed on, while Compass Rose kept jaunty pace with her, like a Pekingese harbouring designs on a greyhound.

As they ploughed on through the mud, their progress slowed to a plodding walk.

Just ploughed on with the hopeless task of trying to box up the huge pile.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms.

With all external lights now extinguished, and only a masked lantern illuminating the compass on the bridge, the wheelboat ploughed on, its churning wake blue-white under a fitful moon.