How to Use cultivation in a Sentence

cultivation

noun
  • The fall is a great time for stewardship and cultivation.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Craft cannabis is a distinct type of marijuana that expert farmers grow on small-scale farms using world-class cultivation techniques and plant nutrients.
    Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Part of the decline was due to the elimination of a cultivation tax.
    Byverne Kopytoff, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, being in wine country, there are 50 to 75 acres of land ready for cultivation.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The program has been built for longevity with the growth and cultivation of a feeder system..
    Tyler Foy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The full-bore messaging and cultivation of these donors and funders just isn’t out there.
    Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 20 July 2024
  • In May, Young is set to be among the first students at Oakton to earn the cultivation certificate as well.
    chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Because just dirt, water, and sunlight were used in the cultivation of this hemp, the CBD oil in these gummies is unique.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • The cultivation has decreased; now very few fruits grow.
    Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Play up your role in their cultivation with this cute pair of Halloween costumes.
    Deborah Way, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • In any land where there’s cultivation, bodies could be there.
    Tess Thackara, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Centuries of crop and rice cultivation made its way to the Americas via the trans-Atlantic slave trade routes.
    Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Staff was asked to bring back a draft plan to allow for three cultivation licenses.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Locals have a strain of national pride in Gothenburg for their role in the tree’s cultivation and survival.
    Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But regulators took no action against those who grew the weed, a cultivation arm of the Kolas brand.
    Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • The spread of tobacco cultivation, which began in earnest in the mid-1610s, encouraged English colonists to seek out fresh soil for their fields.
    Peter C. Mancall, Time, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The weed will be grown at Green Thumb's cultivation facility in Ocala, which will be operational by the end of this year.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The Corn Belt is on track to become unsuitable for corn cultivation by 2100, and the level of aflatoxins in corn is set to increase.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Annual food cultivation can take up a lot of our time and effort and certainly requires more work from us over the years.
    Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In Sri Lanka, the price of vegetables has jumped threefold while the country’s rice cultivation is down by about a third, the prime minister said.
    Krutika Pathi, ajc, 12 June 2022
  • For 20 years, my dream has been to have something like the Brill Building, a culture of cultivation and development.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Because flea beetle eggs are deposited in the soil, frequent cultivation will cut down on the number of eggs, larvae and pupa in the soil.
    oregonlive, 10 June 2023
  • Much of the trees’ cultivation and dispersal there have been achieved by humans, who planted a handful of them throughout the islands.
    Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The state's hemp law only allows for the cultivation, processing, and sale of hemp and hemp-derived products that contain less than 0.3% Delta 9 THC.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And like finding them, successful cultivation is more a product of luck than knowledge and skill.
    Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But what had become, in this new Germany, of Karl Gustav Specht, with all his intellect and cultivation?
    Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • And when the height of crawfish season is long gone, there's still pond maintenance, rice cultivation, water management, and much more to do.
    Phoebe Suy Gibson, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Helmand is the heartland of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.
    Abdul Khaliq, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2022
  • The latter is responsible for the cultivation end and puts the results in Stone Road packaging.
    Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • At a home scale, gardeners can practice no-till cultivation by using a garden fork to loosen soil.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024

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