tillable
Example Sentences
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He and his wife came to Argyle in 1983, when they bought the 140 acres, 40 of them tillable, that made up Slack Hollow Farm.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022
Early Americans drained these swamps to acquire civilization’s most essential resource: tillable land with friable soil.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2016
To augment the 40 acres of hillside pasture, Ofte seeded about 28 acres of tillable land with grass and alfalfa.
From Washington Times • Apr. 25, 2015
Renting out the tillable land, an owner could clear about $3,300 after taxes; raising pastured beef, they could get nearly $10,000, although there’s more work involved.
From Washington Times • Apr. 25, 2015
Its banks afford but a small proportion of tillable lands, being bordered with rocks and sterile hills.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
