crop

Example Sentences

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Fifteen billion would be derived from food crops like corn, but much of the rest was to come from the development of cellulosic ethanol: fuel from wood chips, switch grass and the like.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cooking competition shows are my cream of the crop.

From Los Angeles Times

Farmers who didn't have irrigation systems would have suffered and those who could water their crops would have had higher electricity and fuel costs, he says.

From BBC

Elephants are considered sacred in Sri Lanka and are protected by law, but farmers and residents in remote villages sometimes attack wild elephants that destroy crops.

From Barron's

Oranges were plentiful year-round, but he needed another crop that could fill the income gap.

From Los Angeles Times