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

Renting out the tillable land, an owner could clear about $3,300 after taxes; raising pastured beef, they could get nearly $10,000, although there’s more work involved.

From Washington Times • Apr. 25, 2015

As a consequence, the greater portion of tillable ground is held by the chief, who has neither the sense nor energy to direct the steps for a proper development of the soil.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)