Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Empty fields and croplands surround Denver International Airport in most directions.—
Mead Gruver,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026 Severance, which is 10 miles east of Fort Collins, is surrounded by irrigated croplands.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
2 Apr. 2026 In the past eighteen months, three powerful hurricanes have destroyed countless homes and vast expanses of cropland, displacing more than a million people.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2026 Anhydrous ammonia is caustic and must be handled as a compressed gas, but given the high nitrogen content, technology was developed to store and transport so it could be injected into cropland.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cropland