How to Use seedbed in a Sentence

seedbed

noun
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  • Derek Gow wants his farm to be a breeding colony, a seedbed for a denuded island.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The downy seedbeds are spun into yarn and woven into a special fabric for dancers.
    — Patrice Hanlon, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
  • Cover the seed only lightly or simply spread on a smooth packed seedbed before a rain.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 28 May 2020
  • Small seeds should be left on top of a seedbed that has been tilled and then firmed with a drag or cultipacker before seeding.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2020
  • As bleak as Afghanistan’s prospects were, the United States could not afford to walk away and allow the country to become a seedbed for extremists again.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2017
  • Clay soils are difficult to work up and develop into a good seedbed.
    — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
  • And the two-parent family is the seedbed for the character formation of young people.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020
  • In a normal situation, a ground fire would spark the release of the seeds from those cones, at the same time providing a bare mineral-soil seedbed for the sequoia.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 15 July 2022
  • Which is, after all, the seedbed for science accomplishment.
    — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2017
  • And too many people still saw manic outbursts of energy in somewhat romantic terms, as a seedbed for great art and ideas.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But Snow Farm has been a seedbed for crafters from New England and beyond, offering a wide variety of workshops for all levels.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • On the other hand, don't let the soil get too soggy; overwatering a seedbed can promote diseases such as damping off, a fungus that kills young seedlings.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2023
  • California has been a seedbed of American political passions, to the Right and Left.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Join The Tribune in a community conversation about Point of the Mountain as a seedbed for innovation.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The seedbed of Morrison’s genius germinated in the family stories that encircled young Chloe, her older sister and two younger brothers.
    — Karen R. Long, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Autobiography is one of the most important seedbeds for fiction, a way for the novel to illuminate new facets of reality.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
  • Palestinian primary and secondary schools are the region’s economic seedbed.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
  • The region was a seedbed for Republican governors, senators and even presidents.
    — Raphael J. Sonenshein, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Exceptionalism is easily misused, the seedbed upon which hate and maleficence can grow.
    — Parker Richards, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Marketplace of the Gods reviews the long history of woolly theorizing about religion which explained everything and so nothing, and served as the ideal seedbed for the invasion of the subject by those wielding sharper tools.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2010
  • Within days, an obscure rural village noted for making wheelbarrows was being vilified as the seedbed for women’s suffrage.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Despite her limited education, Ms. Nie was among the party loyalists sent to watch over the university, regarded as a seedbed of unorthodox ideas.
    — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Although Florida has not traditionally been known as a seedbed of squash, Shumway moved quickly to create a microclimate around his child: snapping up El Hindi, and embarking on a project to build a premier squash facility in the area.
    — Ruth S. Barrett, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The absence of noncompete enforcement may well have been an important factor in the development of Silicon Valley as a vibrant seedbed of innovation.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The seedbed of Democratic politicians, built on the expansion of public expenditures and entitlements, wasn’t sprouting a crop needed to sustain ongoing programs.
    — WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The antinuclear movement provided the seedbed for defense conversion to germinate.
    — Michael Brenes, The New Republic, 18 June 2020
  • For some 40 years, the [Singapore] government has made sure universities never become a seedbed for dissent and don’t normalize political contention.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Decision 2018 Andrea Mitchell's old neighborhood was an unlikely seedbed for a political revolution decades later.
    — Andrea Mitchell /, NBC News, 27 June 2018

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