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

A college year leaves considerable free time in the twelve months, and Billy managed somehow to keep the tillable acres of the farm under crop and to harvest what he planted.

From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Chapman, Ethel M.