How to Use cultivation in a Sentence

cultivation

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  • 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
  • Of course, being in wine country, there are 50 to 75 acres of land ready for cultivation.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The program has been built for longevity with the growth and cultivation of a feeder system..
    — Tyler Foy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The fall is a great time for stewardship and cultivation.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The full-bore messaging and cultivation of these donors and funders just isn’t out there.
    — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 20 July 2024
  • In May, Young is set to be among the first students at Oakton to earn the cultivation certificate as well.
    — chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Because just dirt, water, and sunlight were used in the cultivation of this hemp, the CBD oil in these gummies is unique.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • The effort to curb the disease took shape in the 1920s when the country prevented the cultivation of rice and other crops near houses.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The cultivation has decreased; now very few fruits grow.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Play up your role in their cultivation with this cute pair of Halloween costumes.
    — Deborah Way, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The Hour of Dusk and Gold, a deeper, darker scent, is based around their cultivation of wild Persian carrot.
    — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2021
  • In any land where there’s cultivation, bodies could be there.
    — Tess Thackara, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Centuries of crop and rice cultivation made its way to the Americas via the trans-Atlantic slave trade routes.
    — Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Staff was asked to bring back a draft plan to allow for three cultivation licenses.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Locals have a strain of national pride in Gothenburg for their role in the tree’s cultivation and survival.
    — Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • But regulators took no action against those who grew the weed, a cultivation arm of the Kolas brand.
    — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • The spread of tobacco cultivation, which began in earnest in the mid-1610s, encouraged English colonists to seek out fresh soil for their fields.
    — Peter C. Mancall, Time, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The weed will be grown at Green Thumb's cultivation facility in Ocala, which will be operational by the end of this year.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The Corn Belt is on track to become unsuitable for corn cultivation by 2100, and the level of aflatoxins in corn is set to increase.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • If fire resistance is important, does the cultivation need to vary in any way?
    — oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2021
  • In Sri Lanka, the price of vegetables has jumped threefold while the country’s rice cultivation is down by about a third, the prime minister said.
    — Krutika Pathi, ajc, 12 June 2022
  • For 20 years, my dream has been to have something like the Brill Building, a culture of cultivation and development.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • This makes practice for leadership the cultivation of voluntary hardship—not just in the workplace or with the team but in every area of one’s life.
    — Matt Reynolds, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Because flea beetle eggs are deposited in the soil, frequent cultivation will cut down on the number of eggs, larvae and pupa in the soil.
    — oregonlive, 10 June 2023
  • Much of the trees’ cultivation and dispersal there have been achieved by humans, who planted a handful of them throughout the islands.
    — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • My work with spies and years of research reporting on the intelligence world has shown that spycraft relies on the careful cultivation of relationships more than high-speed car chases or dramatic gunfights.
    — Jeremy Hurewitz, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The Democratic Party must rebuild trust with voters by shifting its focus from donor cultivation to volunteer recruitment, from endless fundraising calls to meaningful voter engagement.
    — Ashwani Jain, Baltimore Sun, 24 Nov. 2024

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