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How to use infertile in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Infertile means not fertile. Example: “The soil was too infertile to grow crops.”

Examples of infertile by meaning

adjectiveNot fertile.

  • The soil was too infertile to grow crops.
  • The couple sought medical advice for infertile conditions.
  • Deserts are often infertile and unable to support vegetation.

More sentences with infertile

  • However, some birds of this type are unbreedable individuals that are too old, incompatible with available mates, or infertile.2009, Mattie Sue Athan, Dianalee Deter, Guide to the Senegal Parrot and Its Family, Barron's, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry unbreedable
  • It is not infertile: each plant sets a cobful of seeds without difficulty, lining them up in neat rows.1989, Michael Webster, Home farm: one family's life on the land, page 83. From the entry cobful
  • High speed videomicrography has been used to simultaneously assess both the motility and morphology of sperm from fertile and infertile men.1984. United States Congress. House. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, page 482. From the entry videomicrography
  • For a relatively unpromising scrap of land – 88 square kilometres of infertile shore and mountain – Ascension attracted a lot of interest.2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 453. From the entry ascension
  • Terra Preta soils of central Amazonia exhibit approximately three times more soil organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus and 70 times more charcoal compared to adjacent infertile soils.2007, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, volume 362, numbers 1477-1480, Royal Society, page 187. From the entry terra preta
  • The central preoccupation of the Gileadean society is human reproduction, because most members are sterile or infertile due to the build-up of toxic wastes and nuclear fallout.1999, Virginia Olessen, Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, page 234. From the entry Gileadean
  • The term shocking or addling trout and salmon eggs is applied to the process of turning the infertile eggs white so they can be separated from the fertile ones.1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland…. From the entry addle
  • Actually, this amounts to nothing more than agitating the eggs enough to rupture the yolk membrane in the infertile eggs, which causes them to turn white.1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland…. From the entry addle
  • It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile).1922, Onnie Warren Smith, The Book of the Pike, page 187. From the entry mule

Meaning of infertile

  1. adjective Not fertile.

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Questions about infertile in a sentence

How do you use infertile in a sentence?
Infertile is used as an adjective. For example: “The soil was too infertile to grow crops.”
What is a short sentence with infertile?
“The couple sought medical advice for infertile conditions.”
What does infertile mean?
Infertile means not fertile.

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