FERTILIZER in a Sentence

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67 example sentences for FERTILIZER, such as:

1. Plants grow well in fertile soil.
2. Add fertilizer to enrich the soil.
3. People get less fertile as they get older.
4. It will be a fertility of year for much raining.
5. Most fertilizers contain nitrogen and phosphates.

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 Meanings and Examples of FERTILIZER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fertilizer
 n.  any substance used to make soil more fertile
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  When there was nothing else to be done with a thing, they first put it into a tank and got out of it all the tallow and grease, and then they made it into fertilizer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and those who served in the cooking rooms.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  The fertilizer works of Durham's lay away from the rest of the plant.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
4  Jurgis was given a shovel, and along with half a dozen others it was his task to shovel this fertilizer into carts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  The building had to be left open, and when the wind blew Durham and Company lost a great deal of fertilizer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  Of course Jurgis had made his home a miniature fertilizer mill a minute after entering.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
7  Jurgis ought to have been at his place in the fertilizer mill; but instead he was waiting, in an agony of fear, for Ona.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  He drove in a patrol wagon with half a dozen of them watching him; keeping as far away as possible, however, on account of the fertilizer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
9  He tried once or twice, stammering and balking, to the annoyance of the judge, who was gasping from the odor of fertilizer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  So he doffed his prison garb, and put on his old fertilizer clothing, and heard the door of the prison clang behind him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
11  His soaked clothing began to steam, and the horrible stench of fertilizer to fill the room.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
12  He went straight to Graham's fertilizer mill, to see if he could get back his job.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
13  There was the same cold, hostile stare that he had had from the boss of the fertilizer mill.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
14  These, however, were all slight matters to a man who had escaped from Durham's fertilizer mill.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
15  Jurgis had long ago cast off his fertilizer clothing, and since going into politics he had donned a linen collar and a greasy red necktie.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Add fertilizer to enrich the soil.
2  You should add some synthetic fertilizer to the soil.
3  The most significant advantages of genetically modified crops for the developing world are that farmers would have higher yields: they would be able to produce food using fewer inputs: less pesticide, less fertilizer.
4  Colonialism is especially fertile ground for nationalist ideas.
5  The fall of the old regime provided fertile ground for opportunism.
6  People get less fertile as they get older.
7  Plants grow well in fertile soil.
8  Herbs need fertile soil and a sunny sheltered position.
9  Hospitals in the region often lack running water and gloves, and can be fertile ground for epidemics.
10  Los Cabos is on the tip of the state of Baja California Sur - an arid and cactus-filled land, yet fertile due to its peninsular body surrounded by the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean.
11  It provides a fertile idea for a group of entrepreneurs.
12  He was able to bring large sterile acreages back to fertility.
13  A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
14  It will be a fertility of year for much raining.
15  Most fertilizers contain nitrogen and phosphates.