How to Use fertilize in a Sentence

fertilize

verb
Definition of fertilizenext
Synonyms for fertilizenext
  • The soil is so rich there is no need to fertilize.
  • He fertilizes the lawn every year.
  • A single sperm fertilizes an egg.
  • Bees fertilize plants as they collect nectar from flowers.
  • When is the best time to fertilize the plants and what to use?
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Weasels, minks, and hawks make meals of them and fertilize the soil.
    — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The male fish will then wrap around the female to fertilize the eggs.
    — Daily Pilot Staff, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
  • Feel free to use the tree stakes to fertilize your tree this month.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Of course renters also don’t have to fertilize the lawn, trim the trees and rake up all the leaves.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • In the spring over-seed any weak spots and fertilize again.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Once established, fertilize your plants in the fall and again in the spring as the shoots come out of the ground.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 18 June 2020
  • The female then lays her eggs in the gravel and the male fertilizes them.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The pollen lands on the plants’ strands of silk, which swing like dirty blond ponytails, and slides down the strands to fertilize the ears.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
  • If those eggs can be fertilized with the once-frozen sperm, the species could have a future.
    — Andrea Foa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The log would be burned for 12 days, and ashes saved to fertilize spring crops.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The fish beach themselves to lay, fertilize and bury eggs.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Milt flows down the female’s body to fertilize the eggs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • The females’ eggs, fertilized by the males’ shivers, will hatch over the next few months.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The urine will be collected and used to fertilize green spaces in the city.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2022
  • Here, the idea is to fertilize the egg outside of the body and then put the resulting embryo back in.
    — Brooke Borel, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Right at the top of the list of questions is whether to fertilize houseplants during the winter.
    — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Keep the soil weed free and slightly moist, but don't fertilize.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Keep the soil weed-free and slightly moist, but don't fertilize.
    — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The process depends on touch and time -- the touch for getting the eggs out of a female, and less than a minute to use the male trout to fertilize the eggs.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2018
  • The female deposits eggs on the ceiling, and the male fertilizes them.
    — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The woman leaves some skin cells, which are turned into eggs and fertilized with the man’s sperm.
    — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • There is no need to fertilize a lawn unless you are so brainwashed by the ads.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2018
  • This allows the grass to fertilize in the winter, thus boosting growth in the spring and summer.
    — Melissa Nott, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Or worse, we will be told to go out and fertilize and kill dandelions at the same time.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The pain of the past and the uncertainty of the future does not diminish, but in fact, only fertilizes the present which is existing there.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2025

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