infertile

How To Use infertile In A Sentence

• Marginal and fragile lands cleared for export crop production rapidly become infertile and erosion prone.
• The tale of the Fisher King involves a king who is lame in one leg (a euphemism for impotency) which in turn causes the land to become barren (infertile).
• These measures are also recommended in BT Yevamot 65b, where the rabbis point out that a precedent for the practice of divorcing an infertile wife after ten years may be drawn from Genesis 16: 3, since it was only after ten years of living in the land of Canaan that Sarai accepted her infertility and surrogated her servant to bear a child on her behalf. Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism.
• There was also an idea that if we took away half the eggs of an infertile woman we would be disadvantaging her.
• She attributes a major depopulating role to venereal diseases, especially gonorrhoea, which makes women infertile.
• Suddenly, we were told, single women everywhere could order made-to-measure designer babies and infertile couples could defy the laws of nature and have healthy children.
• Although still infertile by world standards, soils here are generally higher in nutrient content than those in western Tasmania, especially the rich soils on dolerite substrate. Tasmanian temperate forests
• The plain has coarse, well-drained, generally ferruginous and relatively infertile soils. Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
• Neither are you infertile, as you have already conceived twice in the last two years. The Sun
• We were lucky in that we could afford to do what most infertile couples cannot. Times, Sunday Times