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
At the end of the third year a new field had been hewed into the forest and the land first cleared had become more easily tillable.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
