tillable

Example Sentences

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He and his wife came to Argyle in 1983, when they bought the 140 acres, 40 of them tillable, that made up Slack Hollow Farm.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022

Early Americans drained these swamps to acquire civilization’s most essential resource: tillable land with friable soil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2016

“If the solar thing doesn’t work out after five years, 10 years and they have to decommission, we have to put it into tillable acres.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 29, 2016

To augment the 40 acres of hillside pasture, Ofte seeded about 28 acres of tillable land with grass and alfalfa.

From Washington Times • Apr. 25, 2015

The dry climate of this territory necessitated the use of water by irrigation, and the limited amount of tillable soil had forced them to use fertilizers to get the largest possible return per acre.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)