Example Sentences

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Hence, their houses are moved once a month, and after a year the field that the chickens have been fertilizing is planted with a crop such as peppers or asparagus.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2015

If your pond needs lime, don't apply it in the middle of the summer, especially if you have been fertilizing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The powers of darkness have been fertilizing the ground.

From Class of '29 by Lashin, Orrie