How to Use fertile in a Sentence

fertile

adjective
Definition of fertilenext
Synonyms for fertilenext
  • He has a fertile mind.
  • This subject remains a fertile field for additional investigation.
  • The male mice were fertile after a day, the study found.
    — Nidhi Subbaraman, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Right now, what are some of the most fertile areas of study for you?
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The Lord God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile land and blew life’s breath into his nostrils.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
  • That, in itself, is fertile ground for flow to flourish.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • It was believed those who received the blood would be more fertile the next year.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Take a ride down to the resort’s black sand beach or pool, both cloaked in mist and a fertile rainforest.
    — Kristin Braswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That’s a lot, of course, but ranks far behind more fertile fathers.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The love story proved to be a very good fertile ground to have a lot of those conversations.
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Economic troubles have made the country fertile ground for the drug trade.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The female epaulette shark was never housed with a male shark but produced a fertile egg without the need for a male, the zoo said in a news release.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • To be bound to no one and accountable only to oneself is fertile ground in which to plant myths of one’s own making.
    — Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
  • While the vast majority of the mice pups did not survive, the few that did grew up normally and were fertile adults.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a lot of fertile ground there for future seasons because somebody had to make it.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Moreover, many trailers are parked on top of concrete, not fertile ground for trees.
    — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
  • And Claverie isn’t alone in warning that the region could become a fertile ground for a spillover event — when a virus jumps into a new host and starts to spread.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • These raw, simple, and four-colored origins serve as fertile ground from which Kang the Conqueror can rise.
    — Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Sperm can live up to five days in fertile cervical mucus.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 30 June 2023
  • In the fertile valley, pictured on the left, a town of red-tile roofs is flanked by lush, emerald-green forests, azure-blue water streaming in the foreground.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The region features fertile volcanic soil nestled against the foothills of the Andes mountains in the shadow of the Sangay volcano.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The Jimmy Awards have become this great fertile ground for finding young actors.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
  • Both these records were a very fertile stretch of feverish writing after two years of not being able to do anything at all.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Dec. 2023
  • People of colour got the less fertile spaces and the white people got the fruitful places, closer to the city centre, depending on what was best.
    — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The Mustangs have a powerful name, image and likeness base in the heart of arguably the most fertile recruiting area in the country.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 29 July 2023
  • And like an artist, she is most fulfilled when exploring the fertile ground where constraint meets creation.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Beck had sprung from London’s fertile blues-rock scene in the '60s, making his first big mark with the gritty psychedelic rock of the Yardbirds.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Oh! Gqom beats have also produced fertile ground for South African rappers.
    — Lior Phillips, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • But Dubai, an ultra-modern metropolis built on desert sands, could be fertile ground for the trend.
    — Nick El Hajj, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • Tucker Carlson plowed the fertile field of parent shaming, with a dose of sarcasm and transphobia thrown in.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023

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