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cultivated land temporarily unplanted — usually to improve the soil

I imagined the yellowed paper dissolving in the rain, being absorbed by the earth, lying fallow under winter snow.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart

Good-bye, my dear fallow, and when next you are under thee emotions please do not use the Mohammedan terms with the Tibetan dress.'
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
The huts stood in fallow fields, studded with African weeds and shoots of young saplings.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
The two years during which his mind had lain fallow had refreshed him, he fancied, and he was able now to work with energy.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
The land was fallow only briefly.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
In the dim light of the stars their stems were grey, and their quivering leaves a hint of fallow gold.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
The one in Grandia was in the Arboretum, in an experimental field that had been fallow for a long time.
Ally Condie -- Matched
Is a field idle when it is fallow?
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
Her womb, remaining fallow as the primordial abyss, summons to itself by its very readiness the original power that fertilized the void.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
THE TALE OF DEIRDRE FALLOW.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
One should never let any of the faculties of nature lie fallow.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
T.J. stepped backward and looked nervously over his shoulder to the south, where the fields lay fallow.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Day came, and the fallow sun blinked over the lifeless ridges of Ered Lithui.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
He loitered among the fallow rose bushes and the beds of damp sweet indistinguishable fern.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Gentlemen, Luna is one enormous fallow farm, four thousand million hectares, waiting to be plowed!
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The house had lain pretty much fallow since my father died.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Rabbits scurried away in every direction as they advanced, and presently they saw a whole herd of fallow deer making off among the trees.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
These two men worked together, like dark oxen pulling with equal heart a bolted plow in fallow land.
Homer -- The Iliad
Except, instead of wheat-maize-barley-fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes-makeup-shoes-clothes.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
The ground from here to the Wall was grasslands, Bran knew; fallow fields and low rolling hills, high meadows and lowland bogs.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords

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