plough into
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The lorry ploughed into the line of stationary cars."
- "Tackling the rising grades south of Cropredy with the 3.10 p.m. from Paddington in a blizzard, it ploughed at about 75 m.p.h. into a herd of cows, killing six of the beasts."
- "Another thing we left out was one of the lead German battleships exploding under fire, and, through a series of spectacularly-bad dice rolls, the next three battleships behind either failed to notice, or failed to dodge, and ended up ploughing right into it."
- "In a bid to escape the vagaries of consumer electronics, Samsung may be ploughing headlong into the areas most ripe for invasion by a new breed of emerging-market titans."
- "Young start-ups usually have had two financing options: hands-off venture capitalists that are willing to plough money into a company without rolling up their sleeves, or business incubators that are short on funds but wealthy in enthusiasm and knowledge."