How to Use arable in a Sentence

arable

adjective

• The hum of the highway reached us across an arable field.
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• The country has one of the world’s largest areas of arable land.
  — Amy Yee, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• Most of the country’s arable land is given over to cotton and wheat.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2019
• The railway boom brought millions of acres of arable land under tillage.
  — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
• Wide spans of arable land are good for growing crops but all too easy for conquerors to traverse.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• The world has rendered more than a third of its arable land unusable in the last 40 years.
  — Erik Fyrwald, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2021
• There are also olive groves, arable land and a forest, with 12 acres of white truffle.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2023
• Drought might be an even bigger problem than heat, with some of the world’s most arable land turning quickly to desert.
  — David Wallace-Wells, Daily Intelligencer, 9 July 2017
• One percent of the arable land in the country is collectively worked.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 Dec. 2017
• Climate change will also likely make arable land scarcer, meaning the same acres will have to produce more food.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 21 July 2017
• Irrigation is necessary for all kinds of crops and there is an abundance of what for most of the arable land.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
• With just three percent of Norway arable, there’s less room than meets the eye for farming or simply living.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2021
• It is ideally suited for these types of produce, in areas where there are constraints on arable land and water.
  — Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
• The resulting landscape is forested and hilly, arable but not easy to farm on an industrial scale.
  — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Throughout the past 40 years, the Earth has lost a third of its arable land to erosion and degradation.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2017
• By the 1920s, a tenth of the population owned over seven-tenths of the arable land.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• That process should be able to result in a huge expansion of arable land without touching the Amazon.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• Their analysis concludes that the amount of biomass required would leave the world with inadequate arable land to grow food.
  — Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2020
• Even where the mountains wind down and arable land is more readily available, the region can still feel like an isolated place.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 8 May 2018
• At the same time, arable land per capita is shrinking and climate volatility is increasing.
  — Sahit Muja, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• Sourcing Seeds On any arable farm, sourcing organic seeds will be one key part of the puzzle.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 6 June 2023
• For farmers facing issues feeding enough water to all arable ground due to the cost, this is a major advantage.
  — Brandon Silveira, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• Scarce arable land and soil degradation further constrain food production.
  — Mark Banchereau, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025
• With much of the arable land devoted to livestock, the best fruits and vegetables turned out to all be imported from elsewhere.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2022
• Nearly one-third the world’s fresh water is in service of this production, as well as more than half of the planet’s arable land for grazing and feed.
  — Sia Furler, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022
• But on desperately poor soil—heavy clay 300 meters deep—our arable and dairy business rarely made a profit.
  — Isabella Tree, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2020
• The countryside, meanwhile, can be used for grazing land—part of which is already lent out to a farmer for that very purpose—arable land, and mixed woodland.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 6 May 2023
• What's more, Liquid Nanoclay can turn arid land into arable land in just seven hours, says the company.
  — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020
• Seaweed grows fast, needs no pesticides, requires no arable land, and thrives in marine environments.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
• On Earth, the amount of available arable land restricts our ability to grow food, whether plants, animals or something else.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2019