Sentence examples for cultivated- from inspiring English sources

Vilma is a "granger" – a term I coined to describe the "grey anger" of those who won't willingly enter the people farms, who don't want to spend their retirement twiddling thumbs and perennially tapping little white balls into a hole in a patch of cultivated grass.

There is much to see in what amounts to some 20 acres of cultivated land.

It's a relative of the poisonous monkshood, equally toxic and rarely cultivated today.

As such, his sensibility was gripped by opium, which was administered to him as a chewy paste by a certain Dr Moreau, who had travelled in the Orient and was curious about the effect of this narcotic on the cultivated western mind.

Only 6% of Africa's cultivated land is irrigated, limiting the volume of crops that can be grown out of season, but increased access to irrigation systems stands to increase food productivity by up to 50%.

The South is the more visually stunning, but the North is the more populous and cultivated: this is a contrast that recalls each island's proper name.

Pollux noted that the latter gave the impression of a cultivated individual.

Basil Hall, a naval captain who visited in 1816, could think of no friendlier people, gentle and cultivated.

The retail value of these cultivated shrimp is $15 billion, of which the farmers themselves see about $6 billion.

The cultivated plants consumed by all folks except hunter-gatherers have evolved an ambiguous relationship with people, in which they exchange the risk of being eaten by a human for the reproductive security that domestication brings.

Mr Brown's own long-cultivated image as the groom of Prudence has drawn on the stereotype, but in a benign way; if disgruntlement over the disparity grows, feelings towards the top Scot might be less benign.The obvious solution cutting the Scottish subsidy would exacerbate another problem, known as Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish nationalists.