fallow

Example Sentences

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In recent decades—since the 1970s—the Broadway musical has waxed and waned in terms of both quality and popularity, with fertile and fallow periods.

From The Wall Street Journal

BBC Sport has been told the WSL would rather the tournament is played in the summer during a fallow year with no other major global competitions, rather than disrupting the domestic schedule.

From BBC

“It could take literally days out of the amount of time that things just kind of sit fallow,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

But that does not account for fluctuations in the market; if there was a slump after year 10 or a sudden boom after a fallow period, it would skew your results.

From MarketWatch

Large herds of fallow deer cause problems for arable farmers throughout the year, too, trampling freshly planted crops in the spring and then returning to nibble their way through the fields ahead of harvest time.

From BBC