How to Use seedbed in a Sentence

seedbed

noun

• Clay soils are difficult to work up and develop into a good seedbed.
  — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
• The downy seedbeds are spun into yarn and woven into a special fabric for dancers.
  — Patrice Hanlon, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
• Cover the seed only lightly or simply spread on a smooth packed seedbed before a rain.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 28 May 2020
• Derek Gow wants his farm to be a breeding colony, a seedbed for a denuded island.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021
• Family and faith are seedbeds of virtue where government ought not to intrude.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
• Small seeds should be left on top of a seedbed that has been tilled and then firmed with a drag or cultipacker before seeding.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2020
• And too many people still saw manic outbursts of energy in somewhat romantic terms, as a seedbed for great art and ideas.
  — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• And the two-parent family is the seedbed for the character formation of young people.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020
• On the other hand, don't let the soil get too soggy; overwatering a seedbed can promote diseases such as damping off, a fungus that kills young seedlings.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2023
• From the time the grass seed is scattered over the prepared seedbed until the first sprouts appear, keeping the soil consistently moist is essential.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2025
• In a normal situation, a ground fire would spark the release of the seeds from those cones, at the same time providing a bare mineral-soil seedbed for the sequoia.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 15 July 2022
• Palestinian primary and secondary schools are the region’s economic seedbed.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• Planting outside in a prepared seedbed in the fall accomplishes this naturally, as the seeds will bide their time through the winter cold and germinate in spring.
  — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2025
• Exceptionalism is easily misused, the seedbed upon which hate and maleficence can grow.
  — Parker Richards, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2022
• There is a calm after the storm of creative-destruction, and the current science blogosphere is laying the seedbed for future renewal.
  — Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2019
• As bleak as Afghanistan’s prospects were, the United States could not afford to walk away and allow the country to become a seedbed for extremists again.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2017
• The farmers will also receive instruction in no-till management, which calls for crops to be planted in narrow rows within the untilled seedbeds of previous crops.
  — Delaney Dryfoos, Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2024
• Within days, an obscure rural village noted for making wheelbarrows was being vilified as the seedbed for women’s suffrage.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• But Snow Farm has been a seedbed for crafters from New England and beyond, offering a wide variety of workshops for all levels.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• Autobiography is one of the most important seedbeds for fiction, a way for the novel to illuminate new facets of reality.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
• California has been a seedbed of American political passions, to the Right and Left.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2019
• The region was a seedbed for Republican governors, senators and even presidents.
  — Raphael J. Sonenshein, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021
• The antinuclear movement provided the seedbed for defense conversion to germinate.
  — Michael Brenes, The New Republic, 18 June 2020
• The seedbed of Morrison’s genius germinated in the family stories that encircled young Chloe, her older sister and two younger brothers.
  — Karen R. Long, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• Join The Tribune in a community conversation about Point of the Mountain as a seedbed for innovation.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• The seedbed of Democratic politicians, built on the expansion of public expenditures and entitlements, wasn’t sprouting a crop needed to sustain ongoing programs.
  — WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
• The absence of noncompete enforcement may well have been an important factor in the development of Silicon Valley as a vibrant seedbed of innovation.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• For some 40 years, the [Singapore] government has made sure universities never become a seedbed for dissent and don’t normalize political contention.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• These clubs served as the seedbeds for the emerging rival Democratic party, which would support Jefferson against Washington’s Federalists.
  — Johann Neem / Made By History, TIME, 2 Jan. 2025
• The Cultural Revolution created a seedbed for many traditional Chinese and other faiths to spring up after the oppressions ended.
  — Adrian Zenz, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2018