How to Use arable in a Sentence

arable

adjective

• The country has one of the world’s largest areas of arable land.
  — Amy Yee, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• By the 1920s, a tenth of the population owned over seven-tenths of the arable land.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• The world has rendered more than a third of its arable land unusable in the last 40 years.
  — Erik Fyrwald, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2021
• Most of the country’s arable land is given over to cotton and wheat.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2019
• Throughout the past 40 years, the Earth has lost a third of its arable land to erosion and degradation.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2017
• There are also olive groves, arable land and a forest, with 12 acres of white truffle.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2023
• 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
• A few years ago, China bought nearly one-tenth of Ukraine’s arable farmland.
  — Elisabeth Braw, WSJ, 29 June 2022
• One percent of the arable land in the country is collectively worked.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 Dec. 2017
• 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
• China has 17% of the world’s population and only around 12% of the globe’s total arable land.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sourcing Seeds On any arable farm, sourcing organic seeds will be one key part of the puzzle.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 6 June 2023
• According to the United Nations, 33 percent of arable land on Earth is used to grow feed for livestock.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2017
• In the rest of the country, courts grant tribes water based on the amount of arable land on their reservations, relying on a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
  — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 7 July 2023
• That drop is enough to reduce the UK's percentage of arable land from 32 percent to just seven percent.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Agriculturally, arable land will be reduced and droughts, floods and heat will harm crops much more than a CO2 boost will help them.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
• The soil is dark and appears rich, but is crusted with a visible layer of salt, a problem that affects up to 40% of Egypt’s arable soil.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Two-thirds of the country’s arable land had been registered as of the end of last year, and the central government is aiming to have the task completed by the end of next year.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• The most notable case may be that of the billionaire Bass brothers of Texas, who bought up thousands of acres of arable land in the Imperial Valley in the 1990s.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• 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
• China feeds 22 percent of the world’s population with only 10 percent of the world's arable land.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 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
• 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
• Some 77 percent of the world's arable land is used for meat and milk production, even though animal products provide only about 18 percent of the world's calorie needs.
  — Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024