How to Use fertile in a Sentence

fertile

adjective
Definition of fertilenext
Synonyms for fertilenext
  • He has a fertile mind.
  • This subject remains a fertile field for additional investigation.
  • The male mice were fertile after a day, the study found.
    — Nidhi Subbaraman, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Right now, what are some of the most fertile areas of study for you?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The military holds the arid north and the fertile east along the banks of the Nile River.
    — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • The ground is still fertile and ripe to get those folks involved in the electoral process.
    — Janay Kingsberry, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • In all, 27 eggs were laid, seven of which were fertile and six that hatched.
    — Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Ukraine possesses some of the most fertile soil in the world and is the third-largest exporter of corn.
    — Christopher Decker, The Conversation, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The band went on to tour for the next half-decade — an era, the band said was their most creatively fertile.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • How is this not perfect fertile ground for the Lorne Michaels-led late-nightery?
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The Lord God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile land and blew life’s breath into his nostrils.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
  • All of that moral gray area stuff is really fertile and fun to play in.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 20 Nov. 2022
  • That, in itself, is fertile ground for flow to flourish.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • It was believed those who received the blood would be more fertile the next year.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Take a ride down to the resort’s black sand beach or pool, both cloaked in mist and a fertile rainforest.
    — Kristin Braswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Wrapped in ivy, but still in good condition, the stone rose from the fertile forest floor.
    — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • That’s a lot, of course, but ranks far behind more fertile fathers.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The love story proved to be a very good fertile ground to have a lot of those conversations.
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Thug, the heartbeat of Atlanta’s fertile rap scene, is allegedly the founder of this street gang, which formed in the city in 2012.
    — Vulture, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Most of the time, watching your fertile years drip away feels like watching a leak in a bathroom faucet.
    — Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2022
  • About a third of the country’s fertile land is below sea level.
    — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Here, the high desert’s classic juniper-sage musk is honeyed by the scent of sweetgrass—and the geosmin scent of fertile earth is there, too, in the low notes.
    — Astra Lincoln, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In between the two in size is silt, a mix of rock dust and minerals often found in fertile flood plains.
    — Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • This proves to be fertile ground for other islanders to get in between the Day 1 couple.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • But years ago that fertile ground came in the likes of small towns, sandlot ball and the rugged life cultivated deep in coal mines.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Economic troubles have made the country fertile ground for the drug trade.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The belief that teenagers were involved in the murder found fertile ground online.
    — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Of course, Google isn’t the first company to view trip planning as a fertile ground for AI chatbots.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 May 2024
  • Come fall, the Italian region of Umbria is a rich, fertile oasis.
    — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Giant pandas are fertile for only about three days each year.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024

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