How to Use fertile in a Sentence

fertile

adjective
  • He has a fertile mind.
  • This subject remains a fertile field for additional investigation.
  • But years ago that fertile ground came in the likes of small towns, sandlot ball and the rugged life cultivated deep in coal mines.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Experts have pointed out that this is not the kind of flood that causes weeks of havoc and then leaves behind fertile lands.
    Mohammed Hanif, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Florida is forever fertile ground for a chaotic TV crime romp.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
  • But that raises an even bigger question: Why was the Midwest such fertile ground for classical music?
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The city and its surrounding areas have been a fertile recruiting ground for young Sunni Muslim jihadists.
    Fox News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Judge Dorow has tried to make a meticulous record of her rulings to Brooks' arguments, so that doesn't seem fertile ground for a successful appeal.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The powerful fandom of Dungeons & Dragons is fertile ground for subscription streamers.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 31 July 2024
  • Focusing your energy outward, away from that chaotic atmosphere, could indeed be fertile ground for potential connections.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But the researchers of an ongoing clinical trial claim rapamycin, a drug commonly used to prevent organ transplants from failing, may be able to extend a woman’s fertile years by up to five years.
    Stephane Berneau, CNN, 31 July 2024
  • The male mice were fertile after a day, the study found.
    Nidhi Subbaraman, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Right now, what are some of the most fertile areas of study for you?
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The ground is still fertile and ripe to get those folks involved in the electoral process.
    Janay Kingsberry, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The Lord God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile land and blew life’s breath into his nostrils.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
  • All of that moral gray area stuff is really fertile and fun to play in.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 20 Nov. 2022
  • That, in itself, is fertile ground for flow to flourish.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • It was believed those who received the blood would be more fertile the next year.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Take a ride down to the resort’s black sand beach or pool, both cloaked in mist and a fertile rainforest.
    Kristin Braswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That’s a lot, of course, but ranks far behind more fertile fathers.
    David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The love story proved to be a very good fertile ground to have a lot of those conversations.
    Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Thug, the heartbeat of Atlanta’s fertile rap scene, is allegedly the founder of this street gang, which formed in the city in 2012.
    Vulture, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Here, the high desert’s classic juniper-sage musk is honeyed by the scent of sweetgrass—and the geosmin scent of fertile earth is there, too, in the low notes.
    Astra Lincoln, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022
  • In between the two in size is silt, a mix of rock dust and minerals often found in fertile flood plains.
    Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Economic troubles have made the country fertile ground for the drug trade.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Of course, Google isn’t the first company to view trip planning as a fertile ground for AI chatbots.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 May 2024
  • The female epaulette shark was never housed with a male shark but produced a fertile egg without the need for a male, the zoo said in a news release.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • His soil is considered some of the nation’s most fertile.
    Patrick Cooley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • To be bound to no one and accountable only to oneself is fertile ground in which to plant myths of one’s own making.
    Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
  • While the vast majority of the mice pups did not survive, the few that did grew up normally and were fertile adults.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 28 Apr. 2023

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