Sentence examples for plowland from inspiring English sources

Arable land is scarce; cultivated lands (plowland, orchards, and vineyards) occupy less than two-fifths of the total area.

Lara loved these rides with him, especially in winter, when it was already dark outside — the half hour up and over the ridge, through little villages, past meadows with old apple orchards and plowland.

Besides the different arrangement of the plowland, there were other changes, some of them important.

The most elaborate was that of Nero's Golden House, which covered more than 300 acres (120 hectares) in the middle of Rome and included an artificial lake (where the Colosseum now stands) and a pastoral landscape of plowland, vineyard, pasture, and wood.

Prickly pear cacti have been very effectively controlled in Australia; some 24 million hectares (60 million acres) have been converted from cactus thicket to plowland and pasture by the cactus moth (Cactoblastis cactorum), which was introduced from Argentina in 1925.

Money, however, was calculated in marks and ores instead of shillings in Danish areas, and arable land was divided into plowlands and oxgangs instead of hides and virgates in the northern and northeastern parts of the Danelaw.