CROPS in a Sentence
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136 example sentences for CROPS, such as:
1. Some of the food crops failed.
2. The unusually hot sun has fried up the crops.
3. Cold weather retards the growth of the crops.
4. The timely rain will certainly bring on the crops.
5. The fields are irrigated so that the crops can grow.
2. The unusually hot sun has fried up the crops.
3. Cold weather retards the growth of the crops.
4. The timely rain will certainly bring on the crops.
5. The fields are irrigated so that the crops can grow.
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Meanings and Examples of CROPS
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crops
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 And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left--taxation that ate up crops and barns and the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation--he intended to have them.
2 Gerald O'Hara had three years' crops of cotton stored under the shed near the gin house at Tara, but little good it did him.
3 When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up their fences.
4 But for the most part the sunny valley was abandoned and desolate and the untended crops stood in parching fields.
5 Most of the families had nothing at all but the remains of their yam crops and their peanuts and such game as they could catch in the woods.
6 Country negroes flocked into the cities, leaving the rural districts without labor to make the crops.
7 It's a relief to have somebody talk something besides crops.
8 They talked about their school and the new teacher, told me about the crops and the harvest, and how many steers they would feed that winter.
9 'It was a pretty hard job, breaking up this place and making the first crops grow,' he said, pushing back his hat and scratching his grizzled hair.
10 In the early summer they would be in Texas, and as the crops were ready they would follow north with the season, ending with the fall in Manitoba.
11 Here were crops that men had worked for three or four months to prepare, and of which they would lose nearly all unless they could find others to help them for a week or two.
12 To be sure, he had given four children a common-school training, and perhaps if the new fence-law had not allowed unfenced crops in West Dougherty he might have raised a little stock and kept ahead.
13 The crops have neither the luxuriance of the richer land nor the signs of neglect so often seen, and there were fences and meadows here and there.
14 Most of the children get their schooling after the "crops are laid by," and very few there are that stay in school after the spring work has begun.
15 The sole advantage of this small class is their freedom to choose their crops, and the increased responsibility which comes through having money transactions.
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1 It was absolutely essential to separate crops from the areas that animals used as pasture.
2 The birds also attack crops when the opportunity arises.
3 This technique is applicable to a wide variety of crops, but some modifications may be necessary to accommodate the peculiarities of each type.
4 The pioneers went west across North America, cutting down forests and planting new crops.
5 If disease is allowed to spread among the crops, it will cause wide spread devastation.
6 The timely rain will certainly bring on the crops.
7 In remote regions, the air is pure and the crops are free of poisonous insecticides.
8 The fields are irrigated so that the crops can grow.
9 Cold weather retards the growth of the crops.
10 One of the first crops that I grew when we came here was rye.
11 The unusually hot sun has fried up the crops.
12 Some of the food crops failed.
13 The cold weather has made it necessary to protect the crops.
14 The farmers are getting the crops in now that they are ripe.
15 Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand.