Sample Sentences forarable (editor-reviewed)
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China has almost 20% of the world's population, but has only 7% of its arable land.arable = capable of being farmed productively
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The government nationalized all arable land.
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And in many ways the animal method of doing things was more efficient and saved labor. Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings. And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labor on the upkeep of hedges and gates. Nevertheless, as the summer wore on, various unforeseen shortages began to make them selves felt. (source)
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It was not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead, nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor waste land.† (source)
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At nine o'clock, Mr. Arable's truck rolled into the Fair Grounds and came to a stop at Wilbur's pen.† (source)
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He was planting on the barren hills and didn't take up any arable land.† (source)
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Its swaths of deep brush and arable land made it great for farming but less appealing for honeymoons and hedonism.† (source)
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Upriver there was no more arable land.† (source)
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Four centuries of terra-forming had made the atmosphere breathable and a few million acres of land arable.† (source)
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One of the few arable fields was immediately to our left.† (source)
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Forty acres of arable land, with sheep, horses, pigs, cows, and enough corn in the barns for three years ahead!† (source)
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One couldn't take money for the milk, and no cow could be slaughtered for food, though rarely one might be sold to buy a piece of arable land or for some other truly important purpose.† (source)
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Bands of farmers blanketed the slopes, planting poppies on every arable surface.† (source)
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110 acres of wooded mountainside with a farm-house, several hundred peach, apple and cherry trees, and a few acres of arable ground for which Gant received $120 a year in rent, and which they valued at $50 an acre, $5,500;† (source)
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He had plenty of arable land and pasturage, and could keep as many head of cattle as he liked.† (source)
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'It is not a bad plan, I can assure you, wife, and the Italians do not waste the straw by not cutting it with the grain; having more arable than pasture land, they use this high stubble for their cattle, letting them feed in it, and eat what grain is left; afterward, allowing the grass to grow up among it, they mow all together for winter fodder.† (source)
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