beet

Example Sentences

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Next month, she said, organizers plan to honor the Japanese-Mexican Labor Assn., a union formed by sugar beet workers in 1903 that conducted a 48-day farmworker strike 123 years ago, long before Chavez.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Food companies started replacing it with cane or beet sugar more than a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

"Once upon a time potatoes and sugar beet weren't grown here and now they're one of the main crops in the area," said Sarah-Jane Taylor.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

Research described in ACS Engineering Au outlines a way to preserve the powerful compounds extracted from beet leaves for use in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.

From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2025

His face was red as a beet, but he didn’t put in a word for me.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns