breadbasket
Example Sentences
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Experts warned that Ukraine is Europe’s breadbasket and Europe would starve.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
St Elizabeth, known as Jamaica's breadbasket, produces much of the island's produce.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025
The region is Italy’s breadbasket, typically producing more durum wheat than any other part of the country, and locals often eat pasta twice a day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
The political uncertainty is weighing on grain producers in South America's breadbasket.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
Above all, the river’s reliable yearly inundations had long made the kingdom the breadbasket of the Mediterranean.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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