breadbasket

Example Sentences

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The swathes of fertile farmland in Sudan, Africa's third-largest country and a potential agricultural breadbasket, have whetted the appetite of the desert Gulf countries across the Red Sea.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

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 Ogallala Aquifer, which rests beneath the Great Plains and was once thought inexhaustible, now drops several feet per year in some areas, turning what was once America’s breadbasket into tomorrow’s dust bowl.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

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