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Example sentences for "unfertile"

Lexicographically close words:
unfeignedly; unfelt; unfeminine; unfenced; unfermented; unfertilised; unfertilized; unfettered; unfigured; unfilial
  1. In the northern part of Greece lay the ice topped mountains of Scythia, a bleak, unfertile region without fruit or grain.

  2. Large tracts of the most fertile land are carried away by the force of the water; others are littered with stones, sand and rubbish, and are made unfertile for years to come.

  3. The past has shown us how, in regions that are unfertile and almost desert at present, the climate can produce a wealth of nourishment if man will but provide the soil with water.

  4. Millions of precious seeds never achieve development because the ground on which they are cast is unfertile or is already occupied, and the young plant is thus deprived of air, light and nourishment.

  5. In modern times, no countries of equal extent have produced as many great captains, statesmen, savants and artists as Holland, whose securest portions are as unfertile as those which are fertile are threatened by the sea.

  6. In the unfertile Bahamas, the price was £21; in Demarara, £86.

  7. But no breed produces so great a proportion of unfertile eggs.

  8. If two hens have been sitting during the same time, and many unfertile eggs are found in the two nests, all the fertile eggs should be placed under one hen, and a fresh batch given to the other.

  9. The effects of cold weather are kept off longer in the fall, because the excess of water is removed, which would produce an unfertile condition on the first appearance of cold weather.

  10. If these gases were not manures; if there were no means by which they could be used by plants, the fertility of the soil would long since have ceased, and the earth would now be in an unfertile condition.

  11. It is the third smallest State, rocky and uneven in surface, unfertile except in the Connecticut River valley.

  12. EDOM, or IDUMÆA, a mountainous but not unfertile country, comprising the S.

  13. Its existence is rather uncertain, Its future decidedly vague, Unfertile the tillage around that old village, The derelict village of Breage.

  14. The country about Bodyke has an unfertile look, a stony, boggy, barren appearance.

  15. On the contrary, they live in the comparatively bleak and unfertile North, which by their unceasing industry they have developed to its fullest extent.

  16. The stuff which looks to be sand--barren, unfertile sand--is the richest soil in the world.

  17. Observe, too, how he drives off the young unfertile fish which are ever lying in wait to devour the spawn.

  18. In addition to the yearling salmon and trout which for ever haunt the skirts of the spawning grounds, there are always a number of mature unfertile fish which for a part of the year live entirely upon the spawn.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unfertile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.