How to Use cultivation in a Sentence

cultivation

noun
  • Half of those are for cultivation, none of which are yet active.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
  • In any land where there’s cultivation, bodies could be there.
    — Tess Thackara, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The cultivation of your self-image should cost at least as much as the price of your townhouse.
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • This has pushed the cultivation season longer and leaves no time between the rice and wheat crop.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The best stuff, on the other hand, is shipped in from states where cultivation is legal.
    — Noah Daly, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2021
  • Many types of potato went out of cultivation over the centuries.
    — Mark Johanson, The Economist, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Staff was asked to bring back a draft plan to allow for three cultivation licenses.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Millions and millions of hectares of cultivation of bananas are based on one clone.
    — Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Play up your role in their cultivation with this cute pair of Halloween costumes.
    — Deborah Way, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But for her, the most significant change has been the cultivation of self-love.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The full-bore messaging and cultivation of these donors and funders just isn’t out there.
    — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 20 July 2024
  • The pleasure that comes from the act of cultivation, however, is all yours.
    — Danielle Chang, Town & Country, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The pawangs’ role in rice cultivation reflects a complex set of values.
    — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2026
  • All of the cultivation, all of the breaking of the land, all of the harvesting was done with hand labor and mules.
    — Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Part of the decline was due to the elimination of a cultivation tax.
    — Byverne Kopytoff, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Hunting, fishing, and the cultivation of crops were all disrupted, and the army seized much of what food was left.
    — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Runoff from cultivation sites may taint the water due to the presence of pesticides.
    — Colson Thayer, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Evidence of cultivation is hard to find these days despite the looming threats.
    — Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
  • By then, some 250 acres had been cleared for cultivation of crops, as well as for the raising of pigs, sheep and dairy cows.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The permit is at least the second for cannabis cultivation in Oceanside.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • The cultivation of this network of skin care providers serves as both advocates of the brand and an extension of the brand.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 26 June 2026
  • Of course, being in wine country, there are 50 to 75 acres of land ready for cultivation.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Fairchild is one of the country’s premier centers for orchid cultivation.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025
  • New businesses and thousands of new jobs are on tap for the cultivation, distribution and sale of the drug.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Most of the world’s best soils are already under cultivation, and mowing down forests to plant corn or soybeans would lead to still more warming.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The soil will benefit from a little cultivation and a top dressing of compost or leaf mold, which is then scratched into the soil.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Some vegetables—like tomatoes and herbs—are cheaper to grow at home due to their high store prices and ease of cultivation, while others are not.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Some vegetables—like tomatoes and herbs—are cheaper to grow at home due to their high store prices and ease of cultivation, while others are not.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 May 2025
  • The gardening tasks for the cultivation of 30 vegetables are laid out month by month.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026

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