How to Use fecund in a Sentence

fecund

adjective

• Like a clump of black earth, Feit Covey’s pictures are dark but fecund.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• The Marcellus Shale in Appalachia turned out to be larger and more fecund than the Barnett.
  — Russell Gold, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• Meanwhile, down on the ground, roses and raspberries peek out from the fecund earth of North County.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• Instead, the 160-square-meter space is filled with a fecund profusion of leafy greens.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
• Nature is fecund all around us, a season in full swing, wheeling, dicing spores so numerous that the air is thick with them.
  — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2019
• But there’s vitality as well in Anthes’s photos, some of which feature leaves and sprigs in fecund shades of green.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• A quarter of France’s national catch comes from Britain’s fecund waters.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• All the upheavals in Washington made for some fecund earth for comedians to till.
  — John Ortved, Vogue, 30 July 2017
• For as fecund as Peak TV has been during the past decade, the glut hasn’t exactly yielded boundless perfection.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2022
• Meanwhile, my own fecund uterine years are slipping by.
  — Colter Jackson, New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Here was one of her fecund mind’s most enduring creations, Fitzwilliam Darcy, proud and prejudiced and Fabio-ed.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017
• Or to zombies whose infection bring forth even more fecund undead.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
• In the light of high noon, cotton fields are menacingly fecund, owing to the work of the enslaved laborers who stand painfully erect among the crop, like stalks themselves.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 May 2021
• The original movie ended with a brief glimpse of something like Eden, the fecund greens of a park, children playing, innocence abundant.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2023
• In relatively fecund Guizhou and Yunnan, the ratio is still falling.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• The 55 acres surrounding the designer’s house have been planned so that some part of the grounds will always be fecund and some part will always be fallow: birth following death following birth.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Virgin Galactic was one of a crop of private companies to sprout, mushroom-like, from the fecund decay of American spaceflight in the early 2000s.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• The fecund doctor, Donald Cline, has since admitted to lying to patients and using his own sperm to inseminate them.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2018
• The readers of this weblog are relatively non-fecund, at least going by reader surveys.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2012
• Later generations were more fecund, with many of the most fit offspring being hybrids of the local and introduced fish, Reid reported at the meeting.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 July 2019
• Shadows lengthened through the backyard, creatures whirring and growling, plants growing tall and blossoming, fecund and irreverent, while inside the tank the conch sat in its corner.
  — Karen Russell, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• The olive trees, vineyards, fecund gardens, incredible landscapes and views...
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Their forebears had left the Eurasian landmass some millennia earlier, striding over the Bering land bridge and gradually traversing the continent to reach its fecund eastern edge.
  — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
• Obliquely related to her recent movies, Hogg's latest is either her slyest joke to date, or another swerve in an especially fecund career phase.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• In that fecund little valley that divides our rational and and instinctive reactions to machines, Gannon’s work thrives.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 11 Nov. 2018
• There have been dozens more slamming the bureau for various transgressions, most of them figments of the fecund presidential imagination.
  — Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• Of course, in this disconnect between urge and action, a fecund interiority awaits.
  — Sara Lippmann, Washington Post, 4 May 2020
• In the Northwest, summer is short and sweet, with picture-perfect sunny days, hot but not broiling temperatures, fecund gardens, and fewer mosquitoes and bugs than other regions.
  — Issaquah Cedar and Lumber, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• That the fecund religious will birth the future generations of secularists.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010
• After beavers almost went extinct by the mid-19th century, fashions shifted and Canada’s fecund beavers rebounded.
  — New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021

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