breadbasket
Example Sentences
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The governor of Russia’s breadbasket Rostov region declared a state of emergency in late August, citing the disruption to local agriculture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Lincolnshire is known as the breadbasket of England due to its output of crops – and it also has a rich tradition of livestock farming.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The town is in the Santa Cruz region -- an agricultural breadbasket for Bolivia, supplying food to the country's western areas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
“We are the breadbasket of the world but we’ve been overlooked for too long,” said Andrea Shabaglian, a vice president of the Fresno Republican women’s group.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
It’s not that the Cape of Good Hope itself is too dry for agriculture: it is, after all, the breadbasket of modern South Africa.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
