Examples of plowshare in a Sentence
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In the biblical sequence Hanke invoked, the plowshares-into-swords moment is the penultimate act—the mobilization before the reckoning.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
The archetypal idea of the plowshare derives from the Bible, in which the prophet Isaiah urges the people to beat their swords into plowshares.
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Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
Rather than save Himself, Jesus followed precisely the path of moral justice to the Golgotha, awakening a moral revulsion against the war makers that spread across humankind, giving hope that swords would one day be beaten into plowshares.
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Kary Love,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Beating swords into plowshares and making war no more proved a fantasy.
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Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
The ultimate agreement was dramatic, the official announcement filled with references to beating swords into plowshares.
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Arthur House,
Hartford Courant,
30 Dec. 2024
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.
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The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2022
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
The archetypal idea of the plowshare derives from the Bible, in which the prophet Isaiah urges the people to beat their swords into plowshares.
—
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
Rather than save Himself, Jesus followed precisely the path of moral justice to the Golgotha, awakening a moral revulsion against the war makers that spread across humankind, giving hope that swords would one day be beaten into plowshares.
—
Kary Love,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Beating swords into plowshares and making war no more proved a fantasy.
—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
The ultimate agreement was dramatic, the official announcement filled with references to beating swords into plowshares.
—
Arthur House,
Hartford Courant,
30 Dec. 2024
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
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“Plowshare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plowshare. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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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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