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How to use plowshare in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word plowshare? Here are some examples.

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The 18th-century addition of the moldboard, which turned the furrow slice cut by the plowshare, was an important advance.
By the mid-twentieth century, the plowshare was believed to be possibly extinct.
Mounted on the tires arranged on three rows are n.25 attachments and 35x35 curled springs and reversible plowshare.
Mounted on the 80 mm laminate squares arranged in two rows are attachments with 25x25 double spiral springs or 30x30 double spiral springs and reversible plowshare.
He may originally have been an agricultural deity, for as early as the 2nd 1st century bce he was depicted holding a plowshare and a pestle, with a snake canopy above his head.
The hard, plodding work of plowing makes the plowshare shine as it goes down the row turning up the sillion.
The animal he wanted to buy was one of the world's rarest tortoises: Astrochelys yniphora, known locally as angonoka and in English as the plowshare tortoise.
In the center, they would set up a pole: The shade following the sun's path acted as a compass and allowed them to determine the limits that a plowshare would then draw in the ground.
Examples from Classical Literature
But pry open the hungry mouth with the plowshare, and the earth will drink greedily.
Franklin, the philosopher of the thunderbolt, the printing-press, and the plowshare.
There can scarcely be a new theory devised, for the human mind has long since gone over the whole ground with plowshare and rake.
A wrought-iron fragment from a plowshare said to have been used for cultivating cotton in South Carolina.
They placed the plowshare and the pruning hook where the rifle and the tomahawk long held sway.
The soldier had to beat his sword into a plowshare, and small wonder if the blacksmithing was sometimes clumsy.
Beyond the clash of swords and the swish of spears they see the mild and productive era of the plowshare and the pruning hook.
I am off, to cultivate the field of public indigestion with the triple plowshare of aloes, scammony and gamboge.
Then, rising to the surface, it thrust out a fin like a plowshare.
Utah is the hardest soil into which the Methodist plowshare was ever set.
The sword shall be beaten to a plowshare and the spear to a pruning-hook.
All his farming had been done with calloused hands on the plowshare.
One day, after losing yet another plowshare to the rock, he remembered all the problems it had caused him through the years.
There are 11 projects, collectively named Plowshare, for both types on the AEC underground explosion schedule.
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