How to Use fallow in a Sentence

fallow

adjective
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  • The third shift, which eludes most mothers for much of their career, is the fallow field of artistry.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 8 May 2022
  • To reach this goal, a chunk of around 4% of farmland has to remain fallow.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • What would happen to the land if it were simply left fallow?
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • That, of course, led to a fallow stretch in which the Mets pieced together mediocrity on a budget for the final dozen years of the Wilpon era.
    — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • But some of them may be toxic and are not as suitable for large areas of ground, like fallow fields.
    — The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • As such, many fallow and white deer roam the rugged terrain alongside other wildlife.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 June 2023
  • Instead of slamming cell doors, concrete and steel, there’s a sedge of sandhill cranes perched in a fallow field.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • In the distance, across the pitch-black, fallow farm field that separates the two sides, answering volleys rang out.
    — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • On the east side, the Thermal side, is a gray-green checkerboard of fallow and irrigated fields of grapes, bell peppers and golf-course turf, plus stands of date palms.
    — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2021
  • The trees choke out other plants, especially in fallow fields which are empty pieces of land that are the forests of the future, Ashmore said.
    — Nina Tran, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The picture came at a fallow point in Arkin’s career; much of his work in the previous decade had been in underseen comedies.
    — Jason Bailey, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • That area had once been used for sugarcane farming, according to state records, and was now fallow fields.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • We are all trapped in a feedback loop of championship glory, fallow rebuilding and yet more gold to add to the trophy case.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer’s skull.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • But for that to work, the fallow sections needed to be resuscitated.
    — Nancy Hass Ngoc Minh Ngo, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In other words, has the fertilizer been depleted by lying in the fallow ground?
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021
  • The fields are pieced together from properties that went fallow after their owners died or got too old to manage them.
    — Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Some people insist that he’s already entered a fallow patch.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The diner — which has gone through several ownership and name changes and is most commonly known as The Comet — has laid fallow and decaying for over 15 years.
    — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Native land went fallow, leading to sickness and poverty.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Nestled on blocks inside the cavernous dock, the Constellation looked as diminutive as a songbird resting in a fallow field.
    — Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2022
  • With fallow lands, the family is leasing some of the land to solar companies to generate income to buy more water.
    — Yoohyun Jung, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Their islands are plagued by sprawling fallow fields — a legacy of the plantation era that endured for decades until many farms and ranches abruptly closed at the end of the last century.
    — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Their islands are plagued by sprawling fallow fields - a legacy of the plantation era that endured for decades until many farms and ranches abruptly closed at the end of the last century.
    — Darryl Fears, Allyson Chiu and Elahe Izadi, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Many of the fields of red earth have been left fallow by farmers who can no longer afford to buy seeds, fertilizer or diesel to run water pumps to replace the low rainfall of previous years.
    — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Due to the lack of available water, however, farmers are leaving fields fallow, uprooting orchards and vines and culling herds.
    — Richard M. Frank, CNN, 16 July 2021
  • Some farmers have already had to leave fields fallow, grow less water-intensive crops or stop farming entirely, per the Times.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2022
  • In the winter, after the driest three-year period on record that dried up wells and forced farmers to fallow fields, atmospheric river storms pummeled the state.
    — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That topography has collided with the state’s new climate of extremes, characterized by mega-fires, years-long droughts, dry valley wells and the fallow fields of the San Joaquin.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • Little has been done to prevent fallow lands from becoming overgrown.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023

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