Example Sentences

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Much of Western Europe is going through its wettest spring in living memory and even in early June, land lays unsown and blights are ravaging the lands, he said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

The study states that growing the area of fallow lands -- the unsown farmland -- helps to stabilize the population of the little bustard in Catalonia.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

The team sprayed unsown plots with wheat germ oil, hoping local mice would learn to associate wheat fields with a waste of their time and energy.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2023

The roles are played by unsown actors, who, like all good soldiers in a losing cause, are destined to fade away.

From Time Magazine Archive

Zeus gave them a home in a fortunate country where the vineyards and cornlands, unplowed and unsown, bore fruits plenteously.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton