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Example sentences for: fallow

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Beautifully acted but formulaic films like Walk on the Moon suggest we could use a fallow period, a year or two to regroup and think up fresh stories about attraction and trust.
When an identity is contrived or reconstructed in exile after a long fallow period of nonidentification--as in the potato-famine campaign--it's bound to be more radical than the real thing, like the religious convert who becomes more zealous than those born into a religion.
Militarily and economically strategic since prehistoric times, the area comprises fertile cotton and wheat fields, fallow plains, and bizarre terraces of loess dotted with caves that provide housing even to this day.
The movie "reeks of film-student overkill" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). It would only be allowed to "ooz[e] out of Miramax's storeroom" in the otherwise fallow month of January, says the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin: "[I]ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view."
The WP reports that after a long fallow period, the CIA is recruiting again.