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How to use farming in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Farming means the business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc. Example: “Nauru imports foods from Australia because phosphate mining destroyed land for farming.”

More sentences with farming

  • Nauru imports foods from Australia because phosphate mining destroyed land for farming.From the entry import
  • This invention was a revelation for farming throughout the region, where it doubled crop yields.From the entry revelation
  • The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.From the entry vital
  • That town was still very much a simple farming community, but something was very much the matter.From the entry very much
  • Marketing was a time-consuming task for truck farming families, as the round trip could take most of the day.From the entry marketing
  • The new tax should have helped the farming community. But in practice farmers generally appear to be worse off than before.From the entry in practice
  • The Roman farming menologia show the astrological information and religious festivals for each month along with their matching agricultural activities.From the entry menologium
  • Will AI slop farming ultimately exhaust the soil of online spaces?2025 September, Kate Crawford, “Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop”, in e-flux. From the entry farm
  • Development projects mostly attempt to build entire industries, such as dairy farming or fisheries, from scratch.2025 March 6, “Aiding and abetting”, in The Economist (Finance & economics section), London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry command economy
  • Seven were missing after the Tuesday fireworks explosion near Esparto, which gripped the small farming community.2025 July 4, “Human remains located after California fireworks warehouse explosion”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press, archived from…. From the entry esparto
  • In Taylor's Ultimate Arch-Enemy, the main character's power is literally aura farming.2025 April 26, u/Wstiglet, “Aura farming”, in r/WormFanfic (Reddit post), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026. From the entry aura farming
  • Co-benefits are the additional positive environmental, socio-economic and First Nations outcomes delivered by carbon farming projects.2024 June 19, Unknown, “Co-benefit overview”, in Queensland Government. From the entry co-benefit
  • The company mines sulfur near Tonopah and sells it for organic farming.2021 August 20, John Langeler, Justin Hopkins, “Founder of Cal-Nev-Ari reflects on sale of tiny town”, in 8 News Now, archived from the…. From the entry Tonopah
  • Many Chinese laborers came to work on the tracks, and later stayed for farming.2021 April 6, Evelyn Hang Yin, “Hanford’s China Alley: A historic Chinatown in rural America”, in SupChina, archived from the original on…. From the entry Shuntak
  • But this is the proposition that is now poised to determine the future of farming.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &…. From the entry taker
  • Farming today is industrial, and dominated by monolithic corporations who control almost all the food we eat.2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry monolithic
  • However, most major salmon farming areas have observed resistance to common chemotherapeutants.2015 October 21, “Using Agent-Based Modelling to Predict the Role of Wild Refugia in the Evolution of Resistance of Sea Lice to…. From the entry chemotherapeutants
  • The first was the end of dairy farming as a way of life.2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010. From the entry dairy farming
  • These proved prohibitively costly and led to the last of the dairymen quitting farming.2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010. From the entry dairy farming
  • Historians have frequently neglected the other demesne animals that were an important part of chalkland farming.2011, John Hare, A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages, page 70. From the entry chalkland
  • Most are on nonaccompanied single work visas and work in the construction, farming and service industries.2011, Edna Murphy, Welcoming Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood, page 53. From the entry nonaccompanied
  • That means that no one can get rich or make someone else rich by farming a milpa.2010, Sheldon Annis, God and Production in a Guatemalan Town, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry milpa
  • Gold farming is often described as a parasitic business practice that undermines the stability of virtual economics.2010 October 26, Greg Lastowka, Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →OL. From the entry parasitic
  • Philpott was first exposed to farming when he traveled around Italy and stayed at agriturismos.2007 November 23, Emily Biuso, “Down on the Farm With Your Sleeves Rolled Up”, in New York Times. From the entry agriturismos
  • The site, yet to be named, straddles the farming counties of Yeongi and Gongju.2004 August 12, Andrew Salmon, “Seoul names new location for capital”, in The New York Times, sourced from International Herald Tribune…. From the entry Baekje
  • Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms.1998, Claude E. Boyd, Pond Aquaculture Water Quality Management, page 605. From the entry shrimp
  • Farms are often owned by large companies and are run as agri-businesses which specialise for contract farming.1998, Peter Webber, “Economic Activity”, in The UK (Places and Cases), Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes (Publishers), →ISBN…. From the entry agribusiness
  • According to Jaques, too, most of the tourists at the buron were French people with 'farming roots'1996, Simone A. Abram, “Reactions to Tourism: A View from the Deep Green Heart of France”, in Jeremy Boissevain, editor, Coping with…. From the entry buron
  • Potato farming as a single crop requires a lot of acreage and machinery to be profitable.1993 December 5, Miriam Ungerer, “For Some L.I. Farmers, New Potatoes Are Old Potatoes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry 'tater
  • Recently, however, a system of fish and prawn farming has been developed in specially designed brackishwater ponds.1991, V G Jhingran, Fish and fisheries of India, page 534. From the entry brackishwater
  • Farming was on “the toboggan.” New settlers who had purchased land could not meet their deferred payments.1989, C.W. Peterson, Wake Up, Canada!: Reflections on Vital National Issues. From the entry toboggan
  • Some agricultural projects are fully developed, including dairy farming to serve the Hong Kong market.1985, Official Report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the People's Republic of China Led by the President of the Senate…. From the entry Mawan
  • We climbed the ladder into the loft that was strewn with farming implements and with carpenting tools.1983, D. H. Lawrence, Andrew Robertson, James T. Boulton, The White Peacock, page 237. From the entry carpenting
  • In Linfen Special District, farming preparations have been made centering on agricultural and water conservancy capital construction.[1971 February 18 [1971 February 15], “Shansi Irrigation Construction”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 33, Foreign…. From the entry Fenxi
  • They carried out an investigation in Huaijou county and listed six types of farming areas.[1965 March 26 [1965 March 25], “Government Workers Leave for Farm Areas”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 58, Foreign…. From the entry Huairou
  • The ranchería peoples were all agriculturalists and for them farming was a major activity.1962, Edward H[olland] Spicer, “The Ranchería Peoples”, in Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the…. From the entry ranchería
  • Many times in farming practice we are cruel but we cannot avoid being cruel.1960 Sep., Thomas Templeton Murray, “Animals Protection Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Representatives), volume 324, page 2193. From the entry be cruel to be kind
  • The hill sides, however, have been abused by over-intensive farming, bad land use, and reckless denudement.1954, University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography, Research Paper (issues 38-41, page 173). From the entry denudement
  • At the same time I was endeavoring to learn the a-b-c of farming.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954. From the entry ABC
  • The fellow across the road gives up farming and turns his place into a pastoral bootleggery .1927, Plain Talk, page 94. From the entry appropriate

Meaning of farming

  1. noun The business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.
  2. noun A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.
  3. adjective Pertaining to the agricultural business.

Full definition of farming

Questions about farming in a sentence

How do you use farming in a sentence?
Farming is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Nauru imports foods from Australia because phosphate mining destroyed land for farming.”
What is a short sentence with farming?
“The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.”
What does farming mean?
Farming means the business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.

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