farmland

Example Sentences

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In a practice that ought to inspire progressives, those farmers deepened the delta channels and spread over their surrounding farmland the rich silt they excavated or used it to reinforce the levees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Butterflies able to thrive in a wide range of environments – including farmland, parks and gardens – are generally coping better and, in some cases, increasing in number.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Add to that Hurricane Melissa, which struck the island nation in October 2025, flooding fertile farmland and destroying crops.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

Microplastics and nanoplastics are widely known for contaminating oceans, rivers, and farmland.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

The sight of the drowned farmland, the result of a dam that had made his patients some of the poorest on this earth, was Farmer’s lens on the world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French