Sample Sentences for
fallow
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    Perhaps love is best left as a fallow field.  (source)
    fallow = undeveloped
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    In the past, they had been able to depend on grain and vegetables grown by the farmers, but now the fields lay fallow and untended.  (source)
    fallow = unplanted
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    Before her, a field sloped away, fallow for many seasons and dotted with scrub pine.  (source)
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    Unless a wheat— or cornfield is left fallow every few years, the soil becomes exhausted.  (source)
    fallow = unplanted
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    Fallows Red.†  (source)
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    At these times the country gave him a feeling of profound melancholy—it offended him that the links should lie in enforced fallowness, haunted by ragged sparrows for the long season.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    We made our way through the fallow strawberry fields.†  (source)
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    There was the same sort of antithetic mixture in Martin Poyser: he was of so excellent a disposition that he had been kinder and more respectful than ever to his old father since he had made a deed of gift of all his property, and no man judged his neighbours more charitably on all personal matters; but for a farmer, like Luke Britton, for example, whose fallows were not well cleaned, who didn't know the rudiments of hedging and ditching, and showed but a small share of judgment in the purchase of winter stock, Martin Poyser was as hard and implacable as the north-east wind.†  (source)
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    Tattered silver windbreaks bounded flat, plowed fields that the government had paid to lie fallow.†  (source)
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    To reap and bind the rye and oats and to carry it, to mow the meadows, turn over the fallows, thrash the seed and sow the winter corn—all this seems so simple and ordinary; but to succeed in getting through it all everyone in the village, from the old man to the young child, must toil incessantly for three or four weeks, three times as hard as usual, living on rye-beer, onions, and black bread, thrashing and carrying the sheaves at night, and not giving more than two or three hours in the twenty-four to sleep.†  (source)
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    when it broke the sound barrier, an ear-piercing shriek as it rocketed to earth, the ground shuddering under our feet when it plowed into a fallow cornfield.†  (source)
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    Then would he say right thus withoute doubt: "Whoso that buildeth his house all of sallows,* *willows And pricketh his blind horse over the fallows, And suff'reth his wife to *go seeke hallows,* *make pilgrimages* Is worthy to be hanged on the gallows."†  (source)
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    In the dim light of the stars their stems were grey, and their quivering leaves a hint of fallow gold.†  (source)
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