fallow

Example Sentences

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“My goal has always been to maximize internet access and make use of resources that would otherwise lie fallow.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The other species are roe, fallow and sika.

From BBC

Fraser has always been an earnest person, and that earnestness has carried him throughout his career — from the early stardom to the later fallow years and, now, during this gratifying upswing.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. May, a British author who wrote the best-selling memoir “Wintering” about a fallow and difficult period of her life, had come across more hard times during the height of the pandemic.

From New York Times

In the coming years, the requirements of the groundwater law are expected to force landowners to leave large portions of the valley’s farmland dry and fallow.

From Los Angeles Times