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• Fasting tills the heart, destones it, and fertilizes it for better faith production.2015, Chiadikobi Levi Emmanuel, Living in Supernatural Faith. From the entry destone
• Neoliberal penality and its earlier iterations have fertilized the carceral sphere.2011, Bernard E. Harcourt, “The Paris Marais and the Chicago Board of Trade”, in The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of…. From the entry carceral
• In our case, Godzillaish creatures mated with cavemen in testubes and fertilized alien mommas.2011 May 14, Reptillian, “serious questions for atheists”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet). From the entry Godzillaish
• Some say that Amma was the cosmic egg and fertilized himself.2009, David A. Leeming, Kathryn Madden, Stanton Marlan, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z, page 183. From the entry cosmic egg
• One form of clonal reproduction begins when a fertilized egg divides a few times in the womb before initiating embryonic development.2014, John C. Avise, Genetics in the Wild, →ISBN. From the entry polyembryony
• Both farmers and suburban users fertilizing lawns and golf courses generally apply more fertilizer rather than risk underapplication.2004, Ellen E Wohl, Disconnected Rivers: Linking Rivers to Landscapes. From the entry underapplication
• Some growers let the pollen from these hermaphrodites fertilize females.2002, Jorge Cervantes, Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, →ISBN. From the entry hermie
• Killing a fertilized ovum is ovicide, not murder!1991, John B[oswell] Cobb, Jr., “The Right to Live”, in Matters of Life and Death […], Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press…. From the entry ovicide
• Aquasperm contrast with intemally fertilizing sperm which do not enter the water, for which these authors have proposed the term introsperm.1991, Barrie G. M. Jamieson, Fish Evolution and Systematics. From the entry aquasperm
• Yellow flowers will not fertilize white and vice-versa.1978, Margaret J. Martin, Peter Richard Chapman, Succulents and Their Cultivation, Schribner, page 86. From the entry lithops
• Ch'ang-t'ai County persevered in many items of scientific experiments such as soil improvement, additional fertilizing, and seed selection.1977 August 19 [1977 March 1], “Fukien's Prefecture-County-Commune-Brigade Four-Level Agricultural Scientific Experimental Network…. From the entry Ch'ang-t'ai
• He conjectured that the eggs are extruded into this, fertilized by the male, and then taken into his mouth.1918, E. W. Gudger, “Oral Gestation in the Gaff-Topsail Catfish, Felichthys felis”, in Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the…. From the entry mouthbrooder
• There they spawn, and from the fertilized eggs emerge the leptocephali, which then ride on currents all the way back to Europe.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 69. From the entry leptocephalus
• One must be careful not to fertilize incorrectly (or overfertilize or misfertilize) as the seeding may be of discontent rather than enthusiasm.2012, David A. Payne, Designing Educational Project and Program Evaluations. From the entry misfertilize
• But whenever the female lays a clutch of eggs, the male is well positioned to fertilize them by releasing a spermic plume.2008 June 10, Natalie Angier, “Tallying the Toll on an Elder of the Sea”, in New York Times. From the entry spermic
• At Chishan and Lutsao, samples were taken not only from soil cultivated under an organic regime but also of soil that had been chemically fertilized.1999, C. C. Tien, C. C. Chao, W. L. Chao, “Methods for DNA extraction from various soils: a comparison”, in Journal of Applied…. From the entry Lutsao
• There were highly significant differences in percent cobbing between the two fertilizer levels, with the unfertilized treatment producing significantly more cobs than the fertilized treatment.1995, Maize research for stress environments, page 50. From the entry cobbing
• Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry neck
• To fertilize, take a hose-end sprayer.1989 June 19, Julie Greenwalt, “The Grass Is Always Greener on Jerry Baker's Lawn Because He Feeds It Beer, Soap and Ammonia”, in People…. From the entry lawn food
• The reproductive products at such times are purely feminine—that is, eggs which develop without having been fertilized by a male cell, the spermatozoan.1913, Kammerer's Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution of 1912, in the Congressional Serial Set, page 425. From the entry bisexual
• In Northampton, a wild crop, called magotty-bay bean luxuriates, when the fields are not in cultivation, and this serves as a fertilizing plant.1907, Ruth Hairston Early, By-ways of Virginia History, A Jamestown Memorial, Embracing a Sketch of Pocahontas, page 298. From the entry magotty bay bean
• He had hoped -- Fleming sighed a little and frowned a little as he though of his aspirations-- that he could have got a partner to fertilize the flowers.2011, Achmed Abdullah, Vincent Starrett, Adventure Tales #5, →ISBN. From the entry light-handed
• So-called “thundering herds” blanketed much of the Great Plains — rototilling, fertilizing, grazing builders that nurtured vast grasslands and gave home to everything from black-footed ferrets to burrowing owls.2007 January 16, “Letters”, in New York Times. From the entry rototilling
• As Ishmael Reed so bluntly points out, deception and sublimation are put to hard labor to invisibilize this influence in a society that is fertilized by its presence.1996, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts, Praeger, page 23. From the entry invisibilize
• In Neolithic agricultural societies, the sacrificed male and his remains were transferred to the fields needing fecundation, and there the Great Mother becomes the soil receiving the fertilizing blood.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry fecundation
• Close by the door stood the mixen, a collection of every abomination streams from which, in rainy weather, fertilized the lower meadows, generally the lord's pasture, and polluted the stream.1933, David Marshall Brooks, The Necessity of Atheism (Brooks)/Chapter XVI, Chapter XVI. From the entry mixen

Meaning of fertilize

1. verb To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
2. verb To make more creative or intellectually productive.
3. verb To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

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How do you use fertilize in a sentence?

Fertilize is used as a verb. For example: “Fasting tills the heart, destones it, and fertilizes it for better faith production.”

What is a short sentence with fertilize?

“to fertilize one's imagination”

What does fertilize mean?

Fertilize means to make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.