How to Use cultivated in a Sentence

cultivated

adjective
  • In 2020, Good Meat became the first company in the world to sell cultivated meat.
    New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • These boosts are important, the plant scientists say, because by 2050, half the cultivated soil in the world will be salty.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019
  • One of the biggest challenges, though, will be convincing the masses to buy cultivated meat.
    Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
  • As such, many of this year’s street closure plans are a little more cultivated than last year’s ad hoc arrangements.
    Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2021
  • This rub of the rough against the smooth—of wilder ways confronting more cultivated ones—will be familiar to followers of Campion.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The venue offers a cultivated and largely local list of craft brews ranging from India pale ales to an apricot wheat.
    Charles Passy, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Both share a quality of Frenchness to which my parents, as cultivated Czechs living in Prague in the twenties and thirties, were alive.
    Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
  • In choosing a cultivated variety of a native plant, pick one whose blooms are fairly similar to those of the wild species.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • In addition to her success with Indie, Smith’s cultivated clients locally and won a few awards for her work.
    Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Aug. 2021
  • But suckers cause problems in fruit trees and other cultivated species.
    oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Thus Humboldt cultivated proxies — explorers who traveled to the U.S. in his stead and with his support.
    Eleanor Jones Harvey, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Down the line, Knapp said, cultivated clones could be potentially transplanted back into the wild.
    Marion Renault, The New Republic, 7 July 2022
  • Strawberries, both cultivated and wild, are topped with an aloe sorbet served on a corn sable cookie and finished with black pepper and strawberry juice.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • That’s not just the mark of a great orchestra but one with a cultivated sense of artistic responsibility.
    David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
  • In recent years, this disease problem appears to be a growing issue as more and more cultivated roses are used in landscapes.
    oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Wisconsin’s ginseng board reports that one county in the state now exports more than a million pounds of the cultivated root each year—95 percent of U.S. production.
    Greg Kahn, National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The famous and the nameless are here, some buried in landscaped settings with cultivated gardens, others in overgrown plots forgotten in the woods, or left as sentinels along busy roadways.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Dozens of major food companies are jostling to debut cultivated meat to the American public.
    Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The best contribution anyone in a group like that can make is to direct the path to the next burst of deliciousness, and Oscar, with a cultivated palate and a nose that led him to make his own very fine red wine, emerged as a natural leader.
    Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Once the cells have grown and differentiated into the correct kind of tissue, they can be harvested and used in cultivated meat products.
    WIRED, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Mulberry silk comes from cultivated silkworms that eat only leaves from the mulberry tree.
    Elizabeth Wallace, CNN Underscored, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Roku recently launched The Roku Channel, a cultivated channel full of movies provided by studios Roku has existing deals with.
    Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2017
  • This week’s garden calendar includes two scenic ways to stretch your legs in Orange County, while enjoying lots of beautiful plants, both cultivated and wild.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
  • Cohen is a street-wise New Yorker with a penchant for confrontation and a cultivated reputation as Trump’s outside-the-courtroom problem-solver.
    Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
  • That popularity has driven a lucrative market in cultivated plants—and sadly, the poaching of wild ones as well.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
  • It is assumed that most cultivated roses can be infected with rose rosette disease and may vary in their susceptibility to it.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Granted, making cultivated meat as similar to regular meat as possible is still a work in progress.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 6 June 2022
  • Truffle-lovers across the world can thank two French scientists-turned-entrepreneurs, whose work helped farmers strike white gold, with a half dozen tuber magnatum pico recently found on cultivated saplings in the southwest of France.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 12 May 2021
  • Her dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them set in western New York, forgo an air of cool mastery in favor of a kind of cultivated vulnerability, an openness to engulfment.
    Leo Robson, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
  • Only in the Netherlands, the total investment in cultivated meat companies reached $57 million.
    Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022

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