How to Use farming in a Sentence

farming

noun
  • Divers searched the water near the launch in Lisbon, and a farming business in the same town.
    David Sharp, Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer and Michelle R. Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The profits will to help the fight against fish farming in Iceland.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The city had a well, which was infected with E. coli due to hog farming.
    Grace Noble, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • Carver saw how farming practices in the South had destroyed the soil.
    Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • What does climate change mean for the future of US farming?
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • There’s less farming land available, and a few changes to initial quests.
    Nena Farrell, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2024
  • His grandfather’s own use of the app has added other facets of his life, like farming, to his feed.
    Lavender Au, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
  • For those looking to delve into farming, then Farmer Cee’s got a few tips.
    Felice León, Essence, 22 June 2023
  • But of the 12 farmers, only one over the past 40 years has switched to organic farming.
    Koba Ryckewaert, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Like the one about visiting a small farming village and winning the award for Best in Beard.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But today 93% of the forest has been stripped of trees, with much of it turned over to monoculture farming.
    Time, 3 Jan. 2023
  • There's a reason Stardew is the title against which so many cozy and farming sim games are compared.
    Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
  • And the Indigenous farming practices that might heal the earth are being squeezed out.
    Astra Lincoln, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Allowing space for the lake wouldn’t mean ending farming in the area, Sisco said.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • Immokalee is a southwest Florida farming town in the heart of the state's tomato-growing area.
    Mike Schneider, ajc, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Immokalee is a southwest Florida farming town in the heart of the state’s tomato-growing area.
    Mike Schneider, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Many years ago, some of the farming practices for raising tilapia led people to avoid it, and the industry has since made changes.
    Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2022
  • So farming is one of the only things a private citizen can do.
    Photographs & Text By Elliot Ross For Time, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Porter came of age during the farming crisis of the 1980s; neighbors and friends lost their homes and livelihoods as the price of farmland plummeted.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • One area of Sifnos still devoted to farming is a small region on the northwest coast called Poulati.
    Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One study found that half of the elephants’ possible habitat had been cleared for farming or housing.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
  • There are no shortcuts in farming, digital or otherwise, but the work still needs to be done.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Bjork and Rosalia are releasing a new song this month, proceeds from which will aid the fight against fish farming in Iceland.
    Spin Staff, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
  • For many of the nation’s farming regions, the day of reckoning with the loss of groundwater is fast approaching.
    Coral Davenport, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • For the longest time, there was a lot of gatekeeping of farming practices by the white community.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The opponents united around the idea that the county needs to preserve the culture and jobs of farming, and that solar is contrary to that culture.
    Dan Gearino, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Water that once flowed south from the lake through the Everglades and into the Gulf was diverted into thousands of canals to dry the land for farming.
    Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • On top of that, livestock farming takes critical amounts of water and land to raise and feed animals.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • Their culture is based on farming, and knowledge has been passed down from generations.
    Kelly Puente, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Giving the grazing cattle a supplement in this manner could help pastoral farming persist in a more sustainable manner, according to the authors.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Dec. 2024

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