noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
your brow furrows/creases/wrinkles (= lines appear on your brow because you are thinking or are worried )
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His brow furrowed. ‘I don’t understand,’ he said.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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The spouts are placed so as to ensure no seed drops down the deep furrows immediately behind the subsoiler legs.
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It scraped enormously over the road, turning a deep furrow in his life.
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In fact it was a potato field with two foot deep furrows and tall healthy plants on the tops.
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Another sweep along the side of a deep furrow produced a rusted iron belt-buckle of unusual design.
■ VERB
plough
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He did not merely walk barefoot in the pine needles, but dug his toes in so that they ploughed a shallow furrow .
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Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware.
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The one who ploughed the straightest furrow as declared the winner.
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We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plough a lonely/lone furrow
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All around the furrows in the fields were filled with snow.
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The boat's propellers slashed dark furrows in the water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But when he looked at me, that furrow of care between his eyes turned into a question mark.
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Properties within this unit are long and rectangular and there are traces of ridge and furrow in them.
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The aim is to create something like this ... and that means the judges methodically comparing furrows.
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The forehead is usually divided by a central ridge or furrow as in much of the Negroid work.
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The spouts are placed so as to ensure no seed drops down the deep furrows immediately behind the subsoiler legs.
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The traffic that had caused the furrows a mile back could not have come this way.