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Six example sentences with fallow, each labelled with its topic.
Sheep graze the western fallow all winter, and the returning nutrients cut the fertilizer bill for the following crop.
Environment
Village farmers rotated three strips, so a different fallow rested each year while the other two carried grain.
History
Grain prices rose enough that farmers plowed the fallow, and soil scientists warned the yield gain would last two years.
Economics
Soil scientists sampled the fallow each month and found nitrogen climbing steadily as the clover cover broke down.
Science
The footpath cuts across a fallow behind the village, and in May the bare ground is a carpet of poppies.
Travel
Millet painted a plowman crossing a wide fallow, the bare furrows taking up two-thirds of the canvas.
Art
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