How to Use fallow in a Sentence

fallow

1 of 2 adjective

• 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.
  — Darryl Fears, Allyson Chiu and Elahe Izadi, Anchorage Daily News, 4 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.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 2 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
• Those who remained on Shelter Island to look for scallops were the hard core, the romantics and the purists, for whom a fallow winter turns the search for scallops into something like a sacramental rite.
  — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024

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fallow

2 of 2 verb

• More farmers will likely need to fallow land — which some of the region’s farmers have been paid to do — and rely even more on groundwater.
  — Suman Naishadham, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
• Their evident intention was to fallow the land and sell its water rights to San Diego, which thirsted to use the water for its residents.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• Like their Pinal peers, these Maricopa County farmers will fallow land.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
• Many growers decided to fallow their fields and sell their water to perennial crops such as almonds to defray their losses.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
• Many growers decided to fallow their fields and sell their water to perennial crops like almonds to defray their losses.
  — Laura Reiley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• Or ask fellow citizens in the American West facing tough choices between which crops to give up on and which lands to fallow about how that economy is working for them.
  — Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• Congress recently allocated $4 billion in drought funding that can be used to pay farmers to fallow their land and not use their water.
  — Ben Tracy, Andy Bast, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2023
• If, indeed, half of Europe’s population had died during the Black Death, the researchers would expect to see a change from agricultural pollen grains to those of trees and shrubs as fields were left to fallow as farmers died off.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
• The crux of the negotiations increasingly appears to revolve around how much the federal government can afford to pay farmers to fallow more land.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
• Compromising probably would require money — perhaps tax money — to pay farmers to fallow their land and governments to build new canals and repair old ones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• As a result, the farmers will likely need to fallow land — as many already have in recent years because of persisting drought — and rely even more on groundwater, switch to water-efficient crops and find other ways to use less water.
  — Fox News, 16 Aug. 2021
• With rising temperatures and two decades of drought depleting the Colorado River, some Southwestern states are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pay homeowners to tear out their lawns and farmers to fallow their fields.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2021
• More farmers will likely need to fallow land — which some of the region’s farmers have been paid to do — and rely even more on groundwater.
  — Suman Naishadham, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
• Their evident intention was to fallow the land and sell its water rights to San Diego, which thirsted to use the water for its residents.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• Like their Pinal peers, these Maricopa County farmers will fallow land.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
• Many growers decided to fallow their fields and sell their water to perennial crops such as almonds to defray their losses.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
• Many growers decided to fallow their fields and sell their water to perennial crops like almonds to defray their losses.
  — Laura Reiley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• Or ask fellow citizens in the American West facing tough choices between which crops to give up on and which lands to fallow about how that economy is working for them.
  — Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• Congress recently allocated $4 billion in drought funding that can be used to pay farmers to fallow their land and not use their water.
  — Ben Tracy, Andy Bast, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2023
• If, indeed, half of Europe’s population had died during the Black Death, the researchers would expect to see a change from agricultural pollen grains to those of trees and shrubs as fields were left to fallow as farmers died off.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
• The crux of the negotiations increasingly appears to revolve around how much the federal government can afford to pay farmers to fallow more land.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
• Compromising probably would require money — perhaps tax money — to pay farmers to fallow their land and governments to build new canals and repair old ones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• As a result, the farmers will likely need to fallow land — as many already have in recent years because of persisting drought — and rely even more on groundwater, switch to water-efficient crops and find other ways to use less water.
  — Fox News, 16 Aug. 2021
• With rising temperatures and two decades of drought depleting the Colorado River, some Southwestern states are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pay homeowners to tear out their lawns and farmers to fallow their fields.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2021
• More farmers will likely need to fallow land — which some of the region’s farmers have been paid to do — and rely even more on groundwater.
  — Suman Naishadham, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
• Their evident intention was to fallow the land and sell its water rights to San Diego, which thirsted to use the water for its residents.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• Like their Pinal peers, these Maricopa County farmers will fallow land.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
• Many growers decided to fallow their fields and sell their water to perennial crops such as almonds to defray their losses.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
• Many growers decided to fallow their fields and sell their water to perennial crops like almonds to defray their losses.
  — Laura Reiley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• Or ask fellow citizens in the American West facing tough choices between which crops to give up on and which lands to fallow about how that economy is working for them.
  — Star Tribune, 4 July 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024