Example Sentences

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More and more, farmers are interested in not tilling their soil at all, for instance; untilled soil means reduced erosion and the preservation of its organic material.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Zimbabwean Lands Minister Douglas Mombeshora argued that authorities were conducting an audit to determine the best use for farms and untilled land.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2017

If a rich field, a productive field, is the sign of success, then fallow and untilled soil, soul that is ignored, the scrubby, swampy, completely worthless tract of land, is what waste land was.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2016

They are like fragments of the wild, surviving only where a trace of woodland survives, haunting whatever remains of the unhuman: old parks, pre-industrial, untilled places, forgotten roads out past the edges of towns and farms.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2013

If they were weakened by bad usage, or driven from the domain by cruelty, the fields were untilled, the swine unherded, the baron and vassals without bread.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various