FERTILITY in a Sentence

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67 example sentences for FERTILITY, such as:

1. Plants grow well in fertile soil.
2. Add fertilizer to enrich the soil.
3. People get less fertile as they get older.
4. It will be a fertility of year for much raining.
5. Most fertilizers contain nitrogen and phosphates.

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 Meanings and Examples of FERTILITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fertility
 n.  state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  I dwelt long upon the fertility of our soil, and the temperature of our climate.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
2  The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
3  In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
4  There is no guano comparable in fertility with the detritus of a capital.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
5  I say, then, that it is a prudent choice to found your city in a fertile region when the effects of that fertility are duly balanced by the restraint of the laws.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I.
6  All of the world was crying out for cotton, and the new land of the County, unworn and fertile, produced it abundantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Now they'd know what it meant to have fertile fields stripped, horses and cattle stolen, houses burned, old men and boys dragged off to prison and women and children turned out to starve.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  Here lay the fertile state, dotted with plantations, sheltering the women and children, the very old and the negroes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  But what there was of it was good and the acres that were lying fallow could be reclaimed when times grew better, and they would be the more fertile for their rest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  She had driven over the County with Will, trying not to remember when these thousands of fertile acres had stood green with cotton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
11  And the fact in itself still seemed harmless enough; only it was a fertile source of harmful complications.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  The banks of the Thames presented a new scene; they were flat but fertile, and almost every town was marked by the remembrance of some story.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  It was a pleasant fertile spot, well wooded, and rich in pasture.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
15  I am convinced that Mr. Micawber, giving his mind to a profession so adapted to his fertile resources, and his flow of language, must distinguish himself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  He was able to bring large sterile acreages back to fertility.
2  A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
3  It will be a fertility of year for much raining.
4  Colonialism is especially fertile ground for nationalist ideas.
5  The fall of the old regime provided fertile ground for opportunism.
6  People get less fertile as they get older.
7  Plants grow well in fertile soil.
8  Herbs need fertile soil and a sunny sheltered position.
9  Hospitals in the region often lack running water and gloves, and can be fertile ground for epidemics.
10  Los Cabos is on the tip of the state of Baja California Sur - an arid and cactus-filled land, yet fertile due to its peninsular body surrounded by the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean.
11  It provides a fertile idea for a group of entrepreneurs.
12  Most fertilizers contain nitrogen and phosphates.
13  High levels of nitrate occur in eastern England because of the heavy use of fertilizers.
14  Add fertilizer to enrich the soil.
15  You should add some synthetic fertilizer to the soil.