How to Use fertilizer in a Sentence

fertilizer

noun

• They use chemical fertilizers on their lawn.
• We only use organic fertilizer in our gardens.
• Next, sprinkle fertilizer over all the bare soil, to the edges of the canopy.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
• The plants need to be treated with fertilizer because the soil’s not right.
  — Jessie Kissinger, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
• In the absence of a test, use a 12-6-6 fertilizer every six weeks.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
• The areas of the lawn that receive the proper amount of fertilizer will have a healthy, dark green color.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
• The cave was first accessed in 1831 by the owner of the surrounding lands, who was looking for bat guano to use as fertilizer, per the study.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• To thrive, any plant needs light, water and fertilizer.
  — Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• The war caused a huge spike in prices for food, fuel and fertilizer, causing inflation in the euro area to rocket.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
• Russia was also the world’s top exporter of fertilizer before the war.
  — Karl Ritter, ajc, 12 Mar. 2023
• When the deal was inked, the UN agreed in parallel to improve access to Russian food and fertilizer exports.
  — Megan Durisin, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• Your plants are not going to look ugly for long as keeping them moist and applying fertilizer should help push out the new growths.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
• With plenty of water, fertilizer and feed, the beast kept growing.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The whales would dine on krill at the bottom of the ocean, then rise up to breathe and relieve themselves, releasing great clouds of fertilizer to feed the phytoplankton at the top, which in turn fed the krill.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Ukraine is also a huge exporter of corn, and Russia of fertilizer – other critical parts of the food chain.
  — Courtney Bonnell, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
• Using it as a fertilizer or compost is tricky, thanks to its high heavy metal content.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2023
• In the early 19th century, farmers used the marshland mud in their cotton fields as a fertilizer.
  — Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2023
• Fertilize with a slow-release bulb fertilizer each fall to keep flowers blooming for years to come.
  — Katelyn Chef, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2024
• Financing is hard to come by, and some of the industry’s most basic imports, such as fertilizer, are in short supply.
  — Patrick Thomas, wsj.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• The industry says there are new markets for coal, namely its use in products like fertilizer.
  — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• Give foliage plants a spring feeding with a slow-release fertilizer. 77.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• About once a month, through this semi-dormant season of autumn to late winter, add house plant fertilizer to the watering can at half strength.
  — Nancy Brachey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• The remaining liquid becomes fertilizer along with the bones, which are heat-dried and crushed into a nitrogen- and mineral-rich powder.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
• Phosphate-potassium fertilizer can be applied one to two times from the time of bud appearance to blooming.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
• Clover and bluegrass, a desirable turf species, evolved together, with the former capturing nitrogen from the air and adding it to the soil as fertilizer.
  — Ted Steinberg, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
• Each morning and evening, the sheep are moved from the barn to different parts of the vineyard to eat the grass and weeds underneath the grape vines, and provide their beneficial natural fertilizer.
  — Liz Thach, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The lake is now murky and polluted with farm fertilizers, fuel and other pollutants, said Sgt.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 July 2023
• The extra kelp can be turned into food, fertilizer, and fuel, or it can be committed to the deep, locking away countless tonnes of carbon for centuries.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2023
• The farmers and other blue-collar workers that support the BBB are not simply opposed to fertilizer standards.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
• People in the region collect bats’ guano for fertilizer, hunt them for food and—in the Solomon Islands—even use their teeth as traditional currency.
  — Kate Evans, Scientific American, 28 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024