How to Use cultivator in a Sentence

cultivator

noun
  • Use a trowel or hand cultivator to break up the soil and turn it over.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There are no bad plants or bad men; there are only bad cultivators.
    — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Smaller cannabis cultivators, rather than chains, may be the best place to start.
    — Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Meat can be harvested from the cultivator in four to six weeks.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The cultivator can be used to loosen, rake, and smooth soil or dislodge pesky weeds and debris.
    — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Cannabis cultivators couldn’t farm on more than 4 total acres.
    — Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannabist, 1 May 2017
  • Fifty years ago, one would be advised to get oxygen to plant roots by using a cultivator.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 2 May 2017
  • In the garden, remove weeds and turn over the soil with a hand cultivator and trowel.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Even as the work continues, the new road map could help cultivators figure out how to breed new tea plants.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
  • Many marijuana cultivators live on their farms, and some homes burned to the ground.
    — Katie Zezima, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But one of the state's largest cannabis cultivators says that promise is beginning to break down.
    — Karen Morfitt, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • The cultivator turned the soil, while the weeder yanked out deep, troublesome roots.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • We’ve been told to use the cultivators to turn over material.
    — Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Inviting guests to stay is a chance for growers, croppers and cultivators to share their world with others.
    — Lindsay Cohn, USA TODAY, 15 June 2018
  • Culta's cultivators are not only looking for a plant that grows well in this climate.
    — Erin Cox, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Culta’s cultivators are not only looking for a plant that grows well in this climate.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Nevada charges a 15% wholesale tax to cultivators, which goes to state schools.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Afghanistan is the world's top cultivator of the poppy, which heroin and opium are produced from.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Most of the victims were marginal cultivators or small farm holders with less than 5 acres of land.
    — Katy Daigle, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2017
  • One rescue, a gray bulldog, had a soft bark, so cultivators tied several plastic jugs around his neck.
    — courier-journal.com, 31 May 2023
  • The hemp used to make our gummies comes from a licensed cultivator in the United States.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • Rather, the state relies on fixed — and hefty — licensing fees for permits charged to bud dealers and cultivators.
    — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Most of the victims were marginal cultivators or small farm holders with less than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land.
    — Katy Daigle, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2017
  • But moving the farm each year is tricky for cultivators, who need to learn a field’s specific growing conditions.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
  • Those cultivators will be required to pay a $2,000 permit fee.
    — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Not all of the city's industrial parks would be able to have cultivators, processors or testing labs.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Eventually, Jones hopes to use the blockchain to close the loop between cultivators and consumers.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Today, the state’s cannabis market is suffering amid a glut of sellers, cultivators, and product.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Get a heavy duty trowel from Amazon, or get a garden tool set with a trowel, cultivator and transplanter.
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  • Ximena Morales, 15, used a three-pronged hand cultivator to loosen dirt before compost was spread on top.
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024

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