Explore Ploughed through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like plowed or tilled. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Ploughed meaning
simple past and past participle of plough
Using Ploughed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of plough
- Useful related words include: plowed, tilled, unplowed.
- In the example corpus, ploughed often appears in combinations such as: ploughed into, ploughed through, and ploughed.
Context around Ploughed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ploughed
- In this selection, "ploughed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, car, loose, newly, fields, sod and land stand out and add context to how "ploughed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bmw ploughed through the and a car ploughed into a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ploughed" sits close to words such as aac, abbotsford and abdication, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ploughed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A lady ploughed to the floor, smashing through the Central Pier. (11 words)
AN out-of-control bus mounted the pavement in Cadiz and ploughed into pedestrians killing three. (16 words)
It ploughed $61 million into the plan with a mantra of to take on Chinese smartphone vendors. (17 words)
So many tasks other than ploughing were done by a pair of horses: harrowing the ploughed fields, rolling with one horse per roller, the pair working in tandem and in echelon, their horseman walking behind the first roller and keeping the second on line. (44 words)
For ploughs with two or more furrows more than two horses are needed and, usually, one or more horses have to walk on the loose ploughed sod and that makes hard going for them, and the horse treads the newly ploughed land down. (43 words)
The shocking moment a £187,000 Lamborghini Urus ploughed head first into a Royal Mail Royal Mail van head-on while overtaking traffic at speed has been caught on camera - in an incident that left six people injured. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
For ploughs with two or more furrows more than two horses are needed and, usually, one or more horses have to walk on the loose ploughed sod and that makes hard going for them, and the horse treads the newly ploughed land down.
AN out-of-control bus mounted the pavement in Cadiz and ploughed into pedestrians killing three.
Five people died and multiple people were injured after car ploughed into the beer garden at the The Royal Daylesford Hotel.
Five people, including two children, were killed after a car ploughed into a popular pub in Victorian tourist town Daylesford on Sunday evening.
He ploughed his life savings into The Manor House, transforming it into a gastro pub and hotel with ten double en-suite bedrooms.
It ploughed $61 million into the plan with a mantra of to take on Chinese smartphone vendors.
It’s ploughed a lot of time and thought into building relationships, as well as coming up with the best techniques for making those recordings.
Jamie Komoroski, 25, was allegedly driving three times over the legal alcohol limit and speeding at 65mph in a 25mph zone when she ploughed into the back of the buggy in her car.
Ramadan Abu Saif looked on as bulldozers ploughed into his neighbour's Gaza City home, knowing his could be next as an infrastructure project surges forward in the impoverished Palestinian enclave.
Sharma, 44, her daughter Anvi, 9, and partner Jatin Chugh, 30, were killed in the crash at the Royal Daylesford Hotel when a BMW ploughed through the packed beer garden.
So many tasks other than ploughing were done by a pair of horses: harrowing the ploughed fields, rolling with one horse per roller, the pair working in tandem and in echelon, their horseman walking behind the first roller and keeping the second on line.
Stefan-Alexandru Bloj told jurors that since his 44-tonne HGV ploughed into the back of David Sullivan's Citroen on a motorway he has been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnoea.
The bill would lead to billions of pounds of fresh investment being ploughed into deprived communities, with local politicians given the power to decide where it is spent.
The ring was found by a metal detectorist in a ploughed field in the St Florence area on September 21, 2021.
The shocking moment a £187,000 Lamborghini Urus ploughed head first into a Royal Mail Royal Mail van head-on while overtaking traffic at speed has been caught on camera - in an incident that left six people injured.
A dangerous driver has been jailed after he ploughed into another car head on at 75mph - killing one and leaving another seriously injured.
A lady ploughed to the floor, smashing through the Central Pier.
Almost all the work is in motion; writhing trees, ploughed fields like waves — in his drawings, undistracted by colour, we see spiky pencil strokes going places.
A man is battling for his life in hospital after a driver allegedly "ploughed into four people on the wrong side of the road" in London's West End.
A teen has been arrested after a car ploughed into the side of a couple's garage and crushed their cars - sparking safety calls.
Common combinations with ploughed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: