fallow
Example Sentences
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There is a fallow week now before Townsend's side host France and face the trip to Dublin.
From BBC
There are currently six deer species in Britain – red, sika, fallow, roe, muntjac and Chinese water - but only red and roe are "truly indigenous", according to the British Deer Society.
From BBC
“Ida B,” Daddy said, “we’ve been thinking about the south field that’s been lying fallow for a while and that it might be a good place to plant some more apple trees.”
From Literature
That middle weekend - with fallow weeks either side - always felt a little imperfect.
From BBC
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
