CROP in a Sentence

Learn CROP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
136 example sentences for CROP, such as:
1. The farm was fat with the growing crop.
2. All I'm interested in now is a good cotton crop.
3. The bamboo shoots in spring crop out after rain.
4. We have had the biggest wheat crop ever this year.
5. Rice is the chief crop in most southern provinces.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CROP
crop
 v.  let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
 v.  feed as in a meadow or pasture
Classic Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  His long white hair standing out behind him, he urged the horse forward with crop and loud cries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  The big horse reached the fence, gathered himself and soared over as effortlessly as a bird, his rider yelling enthusiastically, his crop beating the air, his white curls jerking out behind him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  "You'll be keeping civil tongues in your heads this day, or I'll be taking me crop to you," warned Gerald.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  She straightened her tired back and, looking over the browning autumn fields, she saw next year's crop standing sturdy and green, acre upon acre.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  All I'm interested in now is a good cotton crop.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  If I make a good cotton crop, they'll tax it till I'll get nothing for it or maybe confiscate it outright and say it's Confederate cotton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  And we cleared a fair crop this last fall, twenty bales.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  He hurriedly summoned Dr. Meade and two other doctors, and with difficulty he was restrained from beating the unfortunate nurse with his crop.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
9  This motto, however, they did not commend to farmer customers who had had crop failures.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Mrs. Shimerda had paid grandfather ten dollars for a milk cow, and was to give him fifteen more as soon as they harvested their first crop.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
11  That crop of little, short curls, is quite becoming.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  The farm was fat with the growing crop.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  And yet on two-thirds of the land there is but one crop, and that leaves the toilers in debt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  , to advance him food and clothing for the year, and perhaps seed and tools, until his crop is raised and sold.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
15  It is a crop always salable for ready money, not usually subject to great yearly fluctuations in price, and one which the Negroes know how to raise.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  The students at this college are the cream of the crop.
2  The farmer has roped off the field where the new crop is growing to keep the animals out.
3  A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
4  The parent bird partially digests food in its crop.
5  The soil was so badly eroded it could no longer sustain crop production.
6  Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
7  The size of the crop depends on the productivity of the soil.
8  Rice is the chief crop in most southern provinces.
9  The bamboo shoots in spring crop out after rain.
10  When the summer crop is ripening, the autumn crop has to be sowed.
11  When you harvest your crop, you store it in a fat dried mud and stick granary, which is taller than you can reach.
12  We have had the biggest wheat crop ever this year.
13  Manure and improperly composted manure can be a source of pathogen contamination on crop products intended for human consumption.
14  The aromatic uber-tubers, in season from October through December, are better and more abundant than last year's mostly miserable crop.
15  It was absolutely essential to separate crops from the areas that animals used as pasture.