untilled

Example Sentences

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Zimbabwean Lands Minister Douglas Mombeshora argued that authorities were conducting an audit to determine the best use for farms and untilled land.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2017

If a rich field, a productive field, is the sign of success, then fallow and untilled soil, soul that is ignored, the scrubby, swampy, completely worthless tract of land, is what waste land was.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2016

While walking along the edge of Mr. Mackinnon’s field, Mr. Kile noticed a plant a few inches high growing in an adjacent area of untilled dirt.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2014

They are like fragments of the wild, surviving only where a trace of woodland survives, haunting whatever remains of the unhuman: old parks, pre-industrial, untilled places, forgotten roads out past the edges of towns and farms.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2013

The earth is not glad which lies untilled.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max