Examples of plowshare in a Sentence
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The male plowshare is either insufficiently horny or just slow to get down to business, so he’s returned to his own enclosure.
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Lane Brown, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2024
More:Churches in metro Detroit to turn guns into plowshares through buyback programs
What is the penalty for violating an Extreme Risk Protection Order?
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2024
The tech sector has played a vital role in the war effort: turning plowshares into swords; converting civilian drones into weapons; repurposing skills to turn coders into cyberwarriors; and creating platforms and apps to source, fund, connect.
—WIRED, 10 July 2023
For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer’s skull.
—The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
The back yard, occasionally used as a party space, was bare, save for a medieval-style plowshare.
—Ian Volner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
During a brief window during the Eisenhower era, the US government still seriously explored the peaceful uses of the atom—a program known as PLOWSHARE, after the Biblical phrase about beating swords into plowshares.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2019
What was once a great swords-to-plowshares example of former rivals sharing technology is now a point of tension—and Russian leverage.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2018
Trade wars, like all wars, empower government as plowshares are beaten into swords.
—Phil Gramm and, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
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Lane Brown, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2024
More:Churches in metro Detroit to turn guns into plowshares through buyback programs
What is the penalty for violating an Extreme Risk Protection Order?
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2024
The tech sector has played a vital role in the war effort: turning plowshares into swords; converting civilian drones into weapons; repurposing skills to turn coders into cyberwarriors; and creating platforms and apps to source, fund, connect.
—WIRED, 10 July 2023
For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer’s skull.
—The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
The back yard, occasionally used as a party space, was bare, save for a medieval-style plowshare.
—Ian Volner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
During a brief window during the Eisenhower era, the US government still seriously explored the peaceful uses of the atom—a program known as PLOWSHARE, after the Biblical phrase about beating swords into plowshares.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2019
What was once a great swords-to-plowshares example of former rivals sharing technology is now a point of tension—and Russian leverage.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2018
Trade wars, like all wars, empower government as plowshares are beaten into swords.
—Phil Gramm and, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
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“Plowshare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plowshare. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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plowshare
noun
plow·share
-ˌshe(ə)r 
-ˌsha(ə)r
: the part of a plow that cuts the earth
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