Example sentences for: fallow

How can you use “fallow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The WP reports that after a long fallow period, the CIA is recruiting again.

  • In February in the entertainment business, the land lies fallow.

  • 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.


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