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How to pronounce furrow in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms crease, crinkle, line, seam, wrinkle
Type of impression, imprint, depression
Has types life line, lifeline, line of destiny, line of fate, line of heart, line of life, line of saturn, love line, mensal line, crow's feet, crow's foot, dermatoglyphic, frown line, heart line, laugh line
Type Words
Synonyms crease, wrinkle
Type of fold up, turn up, fold


furrow one's brow.
Type Words
Synonyms groove, rut
Type of delve, cut into, dig, turn over


furrow soil.
Type Words
Synonyms chamfer, chase
Type of cut
Type Words
Type of trench
Has types cut, gash

Examples of furrow

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So it's refreshing to see founder Farley Duvall continue to plough this furrow.
From the techcrunch.com
His brow was beginning to furrow, which always is the first trouble sign with him.
From the newsobserver.com
As the furrow dug was deep, its walls tended to collapse and cover the slurry.
From the sciencedaily.com
The Flinders range forms a furrow of folded sediments across South Australia.
From the independent.co.uk
Both plough a similar political furrow, railing against corruption and greed.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Her eyebrows furrow as she eyes the light golden macaroons on the rack above.
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Spoon-bowed Kathi Anne plowed a fast furrow in the races at Lunenburg Harbor.
From the time.com
After staring idly at the white screen for a few moments, your brows furrow.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
And it is only one of many consultancies that plough this particular furrow.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • A long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)
  • Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil"
  • Make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow"
  • Wrinkle: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
  • Cut a furrow into a columns
  • (furrowed) having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
  • The plough (American spelling: plow; both) is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture. ...
  • The Furrow is an Irish Roman Catholic theological periodical. It was founded in 1950 by Dr J.G. McGarry, Professor of Sacred Eloquence and Pastoral Theology at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. The current editor is the Reverend Professor Ronan Drury, B.A., B.D. ...
  • Furrows (Spanish: Surcos) is a 1951 Spanish film directed by Josu00E9 Antonio Nieves Conde, and written by him in collaboration with Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Eugenio Montes, and Natividad Zaro. It provides an unsettling portrait of post-Civil War Madrid while dictator Francisco Franco was in power.