How to Use cultivation in a Sentence

cultivation

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Play up your role in their cultivation with this cute pair of Halloween costumes.
    Deborah Way, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The state's hemp law only allows for the cultivation, processing, and sale of hemp and hemp-derived products that contain less than 0.3% Delta 9 THC.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And like finding them, successful cultivation is more a product of luck than knowledge and skill.
    Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And when the height of crawfish season is long gone, there's still pond maintenance, rice cultivation, water management, and much more to do.
    Phoebe Suy Gibson, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
  • This is why the Spanish, who arrived in the 1500s and set out to control the people by converting them to Catholicism, banned the cultivation and possession of the crop, which fell into disuse.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The software, known as ARStems, is the system the state uses to track the cultivation, transportation and sale of every gram of medical marijuana in the state.
    Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And the appeal of chicken from a climate perspective doesn’t counteract the other wrongs of its cultivation.
    Eve Andrews, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Brahms of all composers benefits from a bit of reserve, and cultivation of clarity over mass.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The Maven grow expanded from a one-room legacy cultivation to a multi-site operation in SFV in 2005.
    Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Stem Rot: Also known as wilt, this is a fungus that enters plants injured by insects, careless cultivation or wind.
    Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But unlike marijuana, these products are legal in Texas, thanks to laws that allowed the cultivation of hemp.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The celebrities of the event were Chinese heirloom seeds collected in Mission Garden's own plots, with a history of more than 150 years of cultivation in Tucson.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2023
  • Find specimens of all sorts for sale and show; ask advice on cultivation from their dedicated fans.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • The dish is a popular breakfast in Nara, Japan’s first permanent capital, which has one of the longest histories of tea cultivation in the country.
    Yasunori Iwata, Saveur, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Success, Ward and his benefactor hoped, would attract Black settlers from the U.S., as well as encourage the cultivation of staples by freedmen on the island.
    R.j.m. Blackett, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Shelves are full of books about permaculture and native herb cultivation.
    Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
  • Many volumes followed on various aspects of plants, trees, flowers and fruits, and their cultivation.
    Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • This cultivation requires a huge quantity of land, much of it found beneath native pine forests, and an even more startling quantity of water.
    Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Progress updates are one way to stay connected with donors, but the nurturing and cultivation of the relationship matters.
    Jim Donahue, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The five women and two men, mostly recent immigrants from Laos, were gunned down at peak harvest season in the Anza Valley, a longtime hub for cannabis cultivation.
    Paige St. John and Marisa Gerber, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023

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