How to Use plow ahead in a Sentence

plow ahead

verb
  • Republicans appear to be plowing ahead with plans to vote on all six bills.
    — Garrett Downs,emily Wilkins, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But the Anatoly Kolodkin is plowing ahead.
    — Sarah Fitzpatrick, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
  • But the project is plowing ahead, despite local outcry and direct pleas from Braun to halt the project.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Instead of plowing ahead with the current design, perhaps a pause is warranted.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
  • There’s two reasons for plowing ahead, Cohen and Navan co-founder Ilan Twig said.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But the prime minister plowed ahead until October 7 forced him to suspend the bills and form a broader war cabinet.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But instead of asking that, Wu is plowing ahead with a 4% increase in the city budget while not targeting any of her woke initiatives.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
  • With a fine equivalent to a few days’ revenue and some marginal changes to its business practices, Live Nation will, more or less, plow ahead as the dominant force in live music.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Senate Agriculture Committee, which has jurisdiction over aspects of the bill that deal with commodities, plowed ahead.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • While seven of the plaintiff states signed onto the DOJ’s terms, attorneys general for many more rejected the deal, criticized the terms for not going far enough, and plowed ahead with the case.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In the meantime, tech companies are plowing ahead with efforts to create new gadgets, from glasses to smart speakers, that will encourage users to more regularly engage with AI systems.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
  • In the meantime, states are continuing to plow ahead with tweaking their programs and, in the case of states without an option, exploring the possibility of an auto-IRA program.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And the entire business is jittery with the debut of Sora 2, OpenAI’s product that has plowed ahead with outputting legacy IP without licensing it from the studios.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Advertisement The Administration has disregarded court orders, including plowing ahead with deporting 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison in March after Boasberg blocked the deportations.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 6 Oct. 2025

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