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
• Then, several weeks ago, while America watched as unsold vegetables were plowed back into the soil and fretted over the earliest outbreaks among midwestern meatpackers, one flour manufacturer quietly saw its sales skyrocket 2,000 percent.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024