How to Use uncultivated in a Sentence

uncultivated

adjective
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  • Some predictions foresee a 40% increase in uncultivated land in the next two to three years, and more in the coming years.
    — AZCentral.com, 18 June 2019
  • Kaufer will point out the medicinal and edible plants along trails in the uncultivated parts of the Taft Gardens Nature Preserve.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
  • For centuries, when uncultivated Scottish land was appraised, only two numbers mattered: How many birds could be shot from the sky above it, and how many deer could be killed on the ground?
    — New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • One resident sent pictures of the uncultivated land to a French aid agency, which agreed to plant fruit trees in the village and help build sturdier concrete homes for families.
    — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Villages became ghost towns; fields were uncultivated because their farmers were too weak to work; corpses lay unburied in streets and country lanes.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Africa also has much of the world’s remaining uncultivated land.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The windowless concrete building, strewn with graffiti and uncultivated greenery, is where the migrants now sleep, eat, play and get doctor’s help.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • But instead of fertilizer being churned into the earth and its phosphorus binding to the soil in a particulate form, the pellets now sit like a crust on top of uncultivated fields.
    — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The continent's potential is evident in one statistic: Africa has 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land.
    — Fatima Hussein, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This was a reference to Tate’s bearing, and his shamanistic attributes, which are deeply rooted, perhaps even innate, and yet not uncultivated.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Cars have gone unwashed, toilets unflushed and gardens uncultivated in the all-hands-on-deck effort of Capetonians to save water, driven by social pressure as much as the city’s very public campaign.
    — NBC News, 7 May 2018
  • As wild places across the world vanish, so, too, do undomesticated or uncultivated plant and animal species.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
  • The challenge is to fulfill this diverse and expanding demand without driving land-use-change (LUC)- the conversion of previously uncultivated lands to farms.
    — Steven Savage, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • If the property is unfenced and uncultivated, it must be posted at all corners, and boundaries that intersect navigable streams, roads, gates and rights of way, or posted in a way that a reasonable person would know it’s private property.
    — Eric Barker, idahostatesman, 9 July 2018
  • Invasive plants often take over uncultivated areas rooted up by hogs, VerCauteren noted.
    — Janet McConnaughey, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Wild like humans ate for 99% of their history: hunting and gathering undomesticated and uncultivated foods.
    — Rien Fertel, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Unlike the former study, this one incorporated many uncultivated microbes.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Sub-Saharan Africa contains 60% of the world’s uncultivated soil that may be used for crop production, and yet the region continually experiences crippling food security instabilities.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2015
  • Some farmers have made significant investments in uncultivated property, Tackett-Hicks said.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2022

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