How to Use farming in a Sentence

farming

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  • Divers searched the water near the launch in Lisbon, and a farming business in the same town.
    — David Sharp, Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer and Michelle R. Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The profits will to help the fight against fish farming in Iceland.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The city had a well, which was infected with E. coli due to hog farming.
    — Grace Noble, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • Carver saw how farming practices in the South had destroyed the soil.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • There’s less farming land available, and a few changes to initial quests.
    — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2024
  • His grandfather’s own use of the app has added other facets of his life, like farming, to his feed.
    — Lavender Au, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
  • For those looking to delve into farming, then Farmer Cee’s got a few tips.
    — Felice León, Essence, 22 June 2023
  • But of the 12 farmers, only one over the past 40 years has switched to organic farming.
    — Koba Ryckewaert, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Allowing space for the lake wouldn’t mean ending farming in the area, Sisco said.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • Porter came of age during the farming crisis of the 1980s; neighbors and friends lost their homes and livelihoods as the price of farmland plummeted.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • One area of Sifnos still devoted to farming is a small region on the northwest coast called Poulati.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One study found that half of the elephants’ possible habitat had been cleared for farming or housing.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Bjork and Rosalia are releasing a new song this month, proceeds from which will aid the fight against fish farming in Iceland.
    — Spin Staff, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
  • For many of the nation’s farming regions, the day of reckoning with the loss of groundwater is fast approaching.
    — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • For the longest time, there was a lot of gatekeeping of farming practices by the white community.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Water that once flowed south from the lake through the Everglades and into the Gulf was diverted into thousands of canals to dry the land for farming.
    — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • On top of that, livestock farming takes critical amounts of water and land to raise and feed animals.
    — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • The pick, shovel and plow, represent the state’s mining and farming history.
    — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • That area had once been used for sugarcane farming, according to state records, and was now fallow fields.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Water from the reservoir irrigated the thirsty farming region of southern Ukraine, which has grown to depend on canals fed by the water in the decades since the dam was built in the 1950s.
    — Michael Birnbaum and Evan Halper, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
  • Threats like the impacts of climate change and non-sustainable farming methods.
    — Tom Watkins, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • With no dissenting vote, lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that will phase out the farming, slaughter and sale of dog meat by 2027.
    — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Similar to the Harvest Moon, the Hunter’s Moon got its name from a time when humans relied on farming and hunting to survive.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Unlike the other gentlemen, Mitchell, who grew up in Knoxville, did not grow up in a farming family.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The farming class initially enjoyed it as a cheap but tasty way to utilize an abundant crop as far back as the beginning of the Common Era.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Beverly Wight Smith has seen a lifetime of Maine mud seasons in this former farming town.
    — Ashley Milne-Tyte, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Products are made using the finest Colorado hemp that is grown using safe farming products.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Yet farming resonates more in an era of concern about food supplies and as prices remain a key worry for voters.
    — Nayla Razzouk, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Too much or too little Parts of Kherson and scores of farming villages on both sides of the Dnieper River are still coping with the surge of water that for a time submerged them.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The wet winter was a welcome one, as Nicholas Perdue emphasizes that ranching is, at its purest form, farming grass.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024

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