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

His narratives are often fertile ground for an eclectic mix of performers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Thales brought back from Babylon and Egypt the seeds of the new sciences of astronomy and geometry, sciences that would sprout and grow in the fertile soil of Ionia.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan