How to Use fecund in a Sentence

fecund

adjective
  • Like a clump of black earth, Feit Covey’s pictures are dark but fecund.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Or to zombies whose infection bring forth even more fecund undead.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • Nature is fecund all around us, a season in full swing, wheeling, dicing spores so numerous that the air is thick with them.
    — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2019
  • Instead, the 160-square-meter space is filled with a fecund profusion of leafy greens.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • All the upheavals in Washington made for some fecund earth for comedians to till.
    — John Ortved, Vogue, 30 July 2017
  • But there’s vitality as well in Anthes’s photos, some of which feature leaves and sprigs in fecund shades of green.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Meanwhile, down on the ground, roses and raspberries peek out from the fecund earth of North County.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The readers of this weblog are relatively non-fecund, at least going by reader surveys.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2012
  • The Marcellus Shale in Appalachia turned out to be larger and more fecund than the Barnett.
    — Russell Gold, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • In relatively fecund Guizhou and Yunnan, the ratio is still falling.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Older females were significantly less fecund than young mature females, and were not more fecund than subadult females.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The original movie ended with a brief glimpse of something like Eden, the fecund greens of a park, children playing, innocence abundant.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Here was one of her fecund mind’s most enduring creations, Fitzwilliam Darcy, proud and prejudiced and Fabio-ed.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017
  • Johns continued to look back wistfully at this astonishingly fecund period in both their lives.
    — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Of course, in this disconnect between urge and action, a fecund interiority awaits.
    — Sara Lippmann, Washington Post, 4 May 2020
  • For as fecund as Peak TV has been during the past decade, the glut hasn’t exactly yielded boundless perfection.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2022
  • That the fecund religious will birth the future generations of secularists.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010
  • The fecund doctor, Donald Cline, has since admitted to lying to patients and using his own sperm to inseminate them.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2018
  • In that fecund little valley that divides our rational and and instinctive reactions to machines, Gannon’s work thrives.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 11 Nov. 2018
  • Obliquely related to her recent movies, Hogg's latest is either her slyest joke to date, or another swerve in an especially fecund career phase.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • There have been dozens more slamming the bureau for various transgressions, most of them figments of the fecund presidential imagination.
    — Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
  • There have been dozens more slamming the bureau for various transgressions, most of them figments of the fecund presidential imagination.
    — Robert G. Kaiser, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Shadows lengthened through the backyard, creatures whirring and growling, plants growing tall and blossoming, fecund and irreverent, while inside the tank the conch sat in its corner.
    — Karen Russell, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • Later generations were more fecund, with many of the most fit offspring being hybrids of the local and introduced fish, Reid reported at the meeting.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 July 2019
  • After beavers almost went extinct by the mid-19th century, fashions shifted and Canada’s fecund beavers rebounded.
    — New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021
  • In the Northwest, summer is short and sweet, with picture-perfect sunny days, hot but not broiling temperatures, fecund gardens, and fewer mosquitoes and bugs than other regions.
    — Issaquah Cedar and Lumber, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • Their forebears had left the Eurasian landmass some millennia earlier, striding over the Bering land bridge and gradually traversing the continent to reach its fecund eastern edge.
    — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
  • For one, both wend through diverse, and at times dramatic, topography; both are flanked by fecund agricultural regions; and both are ornamented with centuries-old houses so big, nobody lives in them anymore.
    — Bryan Miller, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2013
  • Virgin Galactic was one of a crop of private companies to sprout, mushroom-like, from the fecund decay of American spaceflight in the early 2000s.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
  • For that matter, the more liberal goal of equity should yield as well — which is why the Romney plan would actually be better without the income cap, with a family benefit flowing even unto fecund billionaires.
    — Ross Douthat, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021

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