How to Use plow back in a Sentence

plow back

verb

• That money is plowed back into the city’s tree-planting fund.
  — John D. Harden, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2020
• Over the past several years, the main driver was huge gains, often 20% or more, on profits plowed back into the business.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2019
• That would give businesses or consumers more money to plow back into the economy.
  — Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2019
• The prize would be millions in public money — to plow back into remaking this old coal city for Germany's greener future.
  — Valerie Hamilton, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• The target of revenue, and not profit, was chosen because in many years Amazon reports no profits, plowing back all its money into the company.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 17 June 2018
• Any profit could be plowed back into the organization to be given to other companies.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2019
• The repatriation tax on foreign earnings is levied at a discounted rate — 15.5% for offshore earnings held as cash and 8% for earnings that have been plowed back into investments in plants, equipment and such.
  — Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
• The money from them, as per state law, must be plowed back into safety improvements, such as through infrastructure changes or additional policing.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• Since 2000, Lin said, almost all corporate profits have been plowed back into the stock market, rewarding investors with buybacks and dividends.
  — Michelle R. Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Bollhoefer said the savings likely will be plowed back into Winter Garden’s solid waste fund for new trucks and to maintain its refuse-collection operations.
  — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• But Pelosi would go much further, authorizing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and plowing back the savings to provide seniors with new dental, hearing and vision coverage.
  — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2019
• As at a mutual insurance company or a consumer cooperative, any surplus would be plowed back into the business, lowering costs and raising net returns for its owners: Vanguard’s investors.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019

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