Fertile in a sentence

Definition of Fertile

• They are a most fertile race, and some species of them seem only to be in human habitations.
• By a fertile soil is meant one that has an abundance of plant food in the proper proportions.
• When Sherman left Atalanta he travelled through one of the most fertile countries in the world.
• How Mr Malthus ought to have hated guinea-pigs, those fertile little lumps of blotched fur!
• To the man from the north there seemed something indecent in the fertile febrile swarming of life here.
• He racked his fertile brain with expedients and devices for getting up communication, but for once he had to reject them all.
• In the arid western region it transforms what would otherwise be a dreary desert into fertile valleys.
• He boldly penetrated into the very centre of the continent and reached a fertile spot which to this day is most difficult of access.
• Waste land is made fertile by proper control of the rivers through drainage, storage and irrigation.
• Calcium phosphate is a constituent of all fertile soil, having been supplied to the soil by the disintegration of rocks containing it.
• The natural decomposition of rocks containing potassium gives rise to various compounds of the element in all fertile soils.
• Much of the most fertile land in our country is used for raising tobacco, and grains that are made into alcoholic liquors.
• First there is a new departure; then a lull, and then a resumption of exploration and a finding more fertile than ever.
• Barren as it may seem from the description, the soil is in parts so fertile that capital crops of grain are reaped.
• We have the best natural soil in the world, the most fertile river valleys, watered by abundant rains.
• We contrast this pleasant turmoil with the sleepy lap of our weed-laden waters, the dull tranquillity of our fertile plains.
• Every rain that fell carried more of the fertile soil down the hillside, and the next year the farmer wondered that the yield was still less.
• He was a man of extensive and varied learning, endowed with a rich and fertile imagination, and with great powers of expression.
• A more hopeful chaos or one more rich in fertile seeds we have not possessed since the days of Romanticism.
• Imagine, in a vast and fertile country, a population of a thousand inhabitants, destitute of all capital thus defined.
• The plants arrived in good condition and had excellent care with what I believe was adequate water and fertile soil.
• His axe struck the crown from the monarchs of the wood, and the fertile farms of Ohio are the kingdom he created.
• These lands were especially fertile and beautiful, and Haldimand was quite willing that the grant should be made in accordance with their wishes.
• God does not leave His works incomplete, and He has servants who will change this desolate rock into a fertile garden.
• There are parts of the earth that were once almost as fertile as ours where great cities once stood, but where now nothing is left but the bare rock.
• However, by using fertile spots, formerly barnyard and around the house, I got several walnuts and filberts started.
• Some had described it as fertile in the extreme; others had spoken of it as a land of mountain and defile, where no sustenance could be hoped for for the army.
• In digging these canals through the marshes bordering the coast, thousands of acres of exceedingly fertile land have been reclaimed and are now producing valuable crops.
• Another fertile source of disobedience to the law was furnished by a decision of one of the judges that raised a great outcry among the more fervent disciples of the old prophet.
• The forests have been cut away and in place of endless miles of wilderness there now stretch endless miles of fertile farms, yielding abundant harvests.
• He was by no means framed for gallantry; but he had wit, and a mind fertile in intrigues, with a measureless ambition that was sometimes pushed to madness.
• Artificial mounds also abound, and remains of canals, all denoting that these fertile plains in ancient days supported a large stationary population.

• Another fertile subject for anecdote.
• A feudal baron seizes on a fertile valley.
• You remember how rivers make rainfall and fertile soil.
• To make the land once more fertile these constituents must be replaced.
• Much of the land is dense forest, and much is fertile farm land.
• And safe beneath them smiling spreads The green expanse of fertile meads.
• The fertile brain of Robert Hooker had long before conceived the answer.
• Thou who tread'st its fertile breast, Dost thou feel a glow for it?