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

The lines of vegetation along their banks are like oases, fertile places where people can farm in an otherwise almost lifeless land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann