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Recent Examples of tillable
The main home on a large bluff overlooks the Sulphur River and the approximate 2,800 tillable acres and the 400 acres of pasture ideal for grazing livestock.
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Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 17 Dec. 2024
At nearly 6,000 square feet and sitting on 7.47 acres (with another 5.05 acres of tillable land listed separately), it has been restored over the years with several updates.
—Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2023
Because small-scale farming is far easier in drylands with easily tillable soil.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
The 65-acre property includes lawns, a patio, a wood deck with a saltwater pool, a pool house, and a three-bedroom guesthouse, and woods, pastures, tillable acres, riding trails, and waterfront access on the Rock River.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Oct. 2021
Land fetched prices exceeding $9,000 per tillable acre at that time, said Glen Fladeboe, who co-owns Fladeboe Land, a farmland real estate company with offices in Minneapolis and Willmar.
—Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 17 July 2021
But Scott and editor-in-chief Clare Conley hatched a grandiose plan right there in New York City—many miles away from any sort of tillable ground—that would forever change the path of whitetail deer hunting.
—Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 5 Nov. 2020
In Minnesota, farm real estate brokerage and auction house Fladeboe Land sold two farms in the past couple weeks at more than $8,700 per tillable acre.
—Adam Belz, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
Given that Straska Farm is upland and prime, tillable farmland, Gilbert said local farmers are eager to make use of it.
—Kathleen McWilliams, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2019
Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 17 Dec. 2024
At nearly 6,000 square feet and sitting on 7.47 acres (with another 5.05 acres of tillable land listed separately), it has been restored over the years with several updates.
—Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2023
Because small-scale farming is far easier in drylands with easily tillable soil.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
The 65-acre property includes lawns, a patio, a wood deck with a saltwater pool, a pool house, and a three-bedroom guesthouse, and woods, pastures, tillable acres, riding trails, and waterfront access on the Rock River.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Oct. 2021
Land fetched prices exceeding $9,000 per tillable acre at that time, said Glen Fladeboe, who co-owns Fladeboe Land, a farmland real estate company with offices in Minneapolis and Willmar.
—Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 17 July 2021
But Scott and editor-in-chief Clare Conley hatched a grandiose plan right there in New York City—many miles away from any sort of tillable ground—that would forever change the path of whitetail deer hunting.
—Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 5 Nov. 2020
In Minnesota, farm real estate brokerage and auction house Fladeboe Land sold two farms in the past couple weeks at more than $8,700 per tillable acre.
—Adam Belz, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
Given that Straska Farm is upland and prime, tillable farmland, Gilbert said local farmers are eager to make use of it.
—Kathleen McWilliams, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tillable
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At both spatial scales, forested landscapes had the highest share of deciduous forests and the greatest connectivity of forest patches, hedgerows, and large groups of trees, whereas non-forested landscapes had a relatively large proportion of arable lands and the greatest vineyard-forest distances.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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News accounts of fires, floods, erupting volcanoes, plagues, the loss of arable land, and mass extinctions evoke a planet in collapse.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Winnipeg was fertile ground for Indigenous artists.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Dense with tall, light-swallowing spruce trees and rooted in sodden, fertile ground, the Šumava Forest along the Czech-German border looks and feels like the setting for a Grimm Brothers fairytale: a place out of time, modern civilization and, seemingly, cellphone range.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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