Explore Furrowed through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like corrugated or grooved. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Furrowed meaning
simple past and past participle of furrow
Using Furrowed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of furrow
- Useful related words include: canaliculate, corrugated, grooved, rutted.
- In the example corpus, furrowed often appears in combinations such as: furrowed brow, brow furrowed, furrowed by.
Context around Furrowed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Furrowed
- In this selection, "furrowed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brow, face, fibrous, brow, thinking and brows stand out and add context to how "furrowed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 6 cm furrowed and corky and a face furrowed by the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "furrowed" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with furrowed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Clarence Brown: I love her furrowed brow. (7 words)
Our daughter, however, stood stock still, reciting the rhyme, brow furrowed, thinking. (12 words)
He shook his head and his brow furrowed in the moments following the verdict. (14 words)
A man in a puffy North Face jacket over a shirt and tie looks to the side with his brow furrowed as he stands in front of a pile of twisted, war-damaged vehicles. (34 words)
Currie remembers one neighbour, elderly, Italian, and often sporting a furrowed brow, who had knocked on his door with her cane a few days after the paint job was complete. (30 words)
Hence they grow old beardless and their young men are without comeliness, because a face furrowed by the sword spoils by its scars the natural beauty of a beard. (29 words)
Example sentences (17)
He shook his head and his brow furrowed in the moments following the verdict.
Our daughter, however, stood stock still, reciting the rhyme, brow furrowed, thinking.
A man in a puffy North Face jacket over a shirt and tie looks to the side with his brow furrowed as he stands in front of a pile of twisted, war-damaged vehicles.
Currie remembers one neighbour, elderly, Italian, and often sporting a furrowed brow, who had knocked on his door with her cane a few days after the paint job was complete.
Clarence Brown: I love her furrowed brow.
It’s meant late nights and early morning hours fueled by a lot of coffee and plagued by furrowed brows and headaches, he noted wryly.
When Cipollone referenced the presidential candidates, saying they would rather be in Iowa, Warren gave him a stony glare and Sanders' brow furrowed even more.
Wash looked down and to the side with a furrowed brow as he recalled some of his earliest Depression memories.
Bethany, your back was to the pizza workstation, but I noticed our pizzaiolo, with his furrowed brow, was very focused on kneading our pizza dough.
I am happy because I am the reason they are smiling now when just a minute ago their brow was furrowed.
Measured by a range of values from 0 to 100, an expression of contempt could be measured by a smirking smile, a furrowed brow and a wrinkled nose.
The bark is gray and furrowed with flat ridges that form a diamond pattern.
Hence they grow old beardless and their young men are without comeliness, because a face furrowed by the sword spoils by its scars the natural beauty of a beard.
It has a furrowed stalk with wedge-shaped leaves, the whole plant having a coarse, earthy taste, and a distinctive smell.
On mature trees, it is moderately thick (3–6 cm), furrowed and corky though much less so than coast Douglas-fir.
Sequoia bark is fibrous, furrowed, and may be convert thick at the base of the columnar trunk.
The greater part of that now desert region is, indeed, furrowed by old water-channels.
Common combinations with furrowed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- furrowed brow 5×
- brow furrowed 4×
- furrowed by 2×
- furrowed and 2×