fertile

Example Sentences

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Food stocks provide fertile ground for this exercise.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Ukrainians have for centuries been mostly an agrarian nation, plowing fertile black soils and relying on neighbors for physical and spiritual succor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Vermont, where I teach political science, did not look like fertile ground for Jackson when he first ran for president.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

The broad-muzzled canids are only fertile once a year — right around Valentine’s Day.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Being too old for active battle service he reasoned that the best way he could serve his order was by putting his fertile brain to work.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques