fallow - use in sentences

Object

  • year: Fallowing every 5th year over a 15 year period reduced seed numbers by 75 % .
  • land: Drilled a vetch crop then summer fallowed the land.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • leave: Leaving sites fallow will reduce the risk of disease or parasite transmission.

Modifies a noun

  • deer: The main herds are of fallow deer which now probably number almost a thousand.
  • buck: The two fallow bucks are like that which supports the arms of the County Council in allusion to the name.
  • discovery: In addition, 13 previously fallow discoveries have now had plans for development approved.
  • period: For many contract overseas workers there is a cycle of good earnings followed by fallow periods.
  • land: For a full or bare fallow, heavy land is plowed in April to give the weeds time to start into growth.
  • ground: How is the fallow ground to be broken up?

Used with adjective complement

  • lie: To the east two hundred places Where a thousand farms lie fallow.
  • leave: They are used on land, which would be otherwise be left fallow.
  • become: Inland, map says & I see, many small fields with walls, becoming fallow then suburb.

Noun used with modifier

  • forest: No room was left for intermediate or temporary forms such as forest fallows.
  • rice: Background The spatial distribution of rice fallows in South Asia was documented using a GIS approach.

Modifying Another Word

  • previously: In addition, 13 previously fallow discoveries have now had plans for development approved.
  • long: In the Twickenham sunshine an England career long fallow showed shoots of recovery.

Preposition: for

  • year: Seed numbers in soil are reduced to less than 20 % by fallowing for a year.
  • wheat: They summer fallow for wheat, and than take several crops of spring corn, with some clover.
  • month: If docks get bad enough intends to bastard fallow, he will plow early and leave fallow for 2 months during the summer.
  • time: Below that, there may be little risk in leaving things fallow for a time.

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