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
And he saw development gobbling up tillable acres.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2018
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
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
It has already been made clear that only 16 per cent., or fifteen million acres, of the land of Japan proper is tillable.
From Japan and the California Problem by Iyenaga, Toyokichi
