fertile
Example Sentences
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Food stocks provide fertile ground for this exercise.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026
Ukrainians have for centuries been mostly an agrarian nation, plowing fertile black soils and relying on neighbors for physical and spiritual succor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
The broad-muzzled canids are only fertile once a year — right around Valentine’s Day.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
If anyone had told her a hundred years ago that humans would be taking the fertile out of fertilizer, she would have told them to get some air holes drilled in their skull.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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