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
• Use the right type and amount of fertilizer for normal growth.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• All the spring fertilizer has either done its thing or been lost to spring rains.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 July 2022
• 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
• And the falling price of energy has helped bring down the cost of fertilizer.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
• And that fertilizer — so eye-watering to work with — was messing up the rivers and bays.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• 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
• Two men from New York have died after using bat poop as a fertilizer to grow cannabis.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
• To thrive, any plant needs light, water and fertilizer.
  — Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• The fertilizer used at these times should be high in nitrogen.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2022
• The grass will attempt to grow using the fertilizer but then will quickly wither and die due to lack of moisture.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2024
• What is the timing of fertilizer for azaleas, rhodies etc.?
  — oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• Too much fertilizer can cause less showy blooms and the foliage to overdevelop.
  — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
• Once the biosolids had dried adequately, they were picked up by a company to use the waste as fertilizer for feed crops.
  — Holly Mullen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Consider adding a winter fertilizer to your lawn to keep a healthy soil.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 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
• Russia is a major source of grain and fertilizer to African nations.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
• The fish waste goes through a biodigester, where bacteria converts it into fertilizer for the plants; the fish themselves, along with the greens, head to market.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• 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
• And once built, farms can further pollute the coasts with runoff like fertilizers and antibiotics.
  — Erik Vance, New York Times, 28 May 2024
• Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports has led to scarcities in grain, cooking oil and fertilizer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• Apply fertilizer, water, and add a layer of mulch at the top to protect shallow roots.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 May 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025