fallow
adjective
(of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
fallows
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present tense formof fallow (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Swidden-fallow systems, he argues, maintain a mosaic of fields, fallows, and forests, that is heterogeneous and therefore resilient to climate change.
From National Geographic ● Mar. 8, 2016
Today Mr. Skov fallows a fifth of his fields, and canal water that once flowed from March to October arrives in June and vanishes as early as August.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2015
Around 25% are using improved fallows with nitrogen-fixing trees, a scientific farming approach developed and introduced into Sauri by the World Agroforestry Center.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the south spread the green fields and red fallows of Clearwater, bathed in the sheen of the lingering sun.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
This is poetry that goes without help of rhyme; even its halts are big with invitations to the "upland fallows gray," and to the "pensive pleasures sweet."
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
