How to Use uncultivated in a Sentence

uncultivated

adjective

• Some predictions foresee a 40% increase in uncultivated land in the next two to three years, and more in the coming years.
  — AZCentral.com, 18 June 2019
• Kaufer will point out the medicinal and edible plants along trails in the uncultivated parts of the Taft Gardens Nature Preserve.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
• For centuries, when uncultivated Scottish land was appraised, only two numbers mattered: How many birds could be shot from the sky above it, and how many deer could be killed on the ground?
  — New York Times, 5 May 2022
• One resident sent pictures of the uncultivated land to a French aid agency, which agreed to plant fruit trees in the village and help build sturdier concrete homes for families.
  — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2020
• Villages became ghost towns; fields were uncultivated because their farmers were too weak to work; corpses lay unburied in streets and country lanes.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
• Africa also has much of the world’s remaining uncultivated land.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• The windowless concrete building, strewn with graffiti and uncultivated greenery, is where the migrants now sleep, eat, play and get doctor’s help.
  — Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• But instead of fertilizer being churned into the earth and its phosphorus binding to the soil in a particulate form, the pellets now sit like a crust on top of uncultivated fields.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• The continent's potential is evident in one statistic: Africa has 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land.
  — Fatima Hussein, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
• This was a reference to Tate’s bearing, and his shamanistic attributes, which are deeply rooted, perhaps even innate, and yet not uncultivated.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• Cars have gone unwashed, toilets unflushed and gardens uncultivated in the all-hands-on-deck effort of Capetonians to save water, driven by social pressure as much as the city’s very public campaign.
  — NBC News, 7 May 2018
• As wild places across the world vanish, so, too, do undomesticated or uncultivated plant and animal species.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
• The challenge is to fulfill this diverse and expanding demand without driving land-use-change (LUC)- the conversion of previously uncultivated lands to farms.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• If the property is unfenced and uncultivated, it must be posted at all corners, and boundaries that intersect navigable streams, roads, gates and rights of way, or posted in a way that a reasonable person would know it’s private property.
  — Eric Barker, idahostatesman, 9 July 2018
• Invasive plants often take over uncultivated areas rooted up by hogs, VerCauteren noted.
  — Janet McConnaughey, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2017
• Wild like humans ate for 99% of their history: hunting and gathering undomesticated and uncultivated foods.
  — Rien Fertel, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2020
• Unlike the former study, this one incorporated many uncultivated microbes.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2019
• Sub-Saharan Africa contains 60% of the world’s uncultivated soil that may be used for crop production, and yet the region continually experiences crippling food security instabilities.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2015
• Some farmers have made significant investments in uncultivated property, Tackett-Hicks said.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2022
• Milkweed habitat, which historically has been uncultivated meadows, has been shrinking quickly over the past several decades from expanding development and also faced increasing competition from nonnative weeds.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024