Example Sentences

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Nutrient runoff from dead forests could have fertilized the marine life.

From Science Magazine • May 27, 2020

Martin reasoned that this dust could have fertilized marine ecosystems and strengthened the biological pump, so that more carbon was transferred into the deep ocean, lowering atmospheric CO2 levels.

From Nature • Feb. 16, 2020

In 1934, Pincus claimed to have fertilized a rabbit egg in vitro.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 16, 2015

His essays, poetry and fiction have fertilized a crop of great solace in my life, and helped to breed a healthy flock of good manners, to boot.

From Time • Nov. 20, 2014

Dirt roads so rich and black that a half mile of it would have fertilized a Kansas wheat field.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston