breadbasket

Example Sentences

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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

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

Until then, he said, “the raids sent shock waves through the entire Central Valley,” the breadbasket of California and of the entire country.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

This, bear in mind, is the breadbasket of America, an area that produces roughly half the world’s cereals.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson