Grain

//ɡɹeɪn//

"Grain" in a Sentence (25 examples)

Rye was called the grain of poverty.

The farmer longs for the day when the grain ripens.

As usual the peasants are busy scattering grain seeds.

We import grain from the United States.

We shouldn't waste even one grain of rice.

We import grain from Canada every year.

Early man used his fingers and toes to count the animals he owned, or the measures of grain he had stored.

In other cultures, the balls were filled with earth, grain, bits and pieces of plants, and sometimes even pieces of metal.

Farmers sow grain seeds in spring.

The farmers complained that because of the dry weather there would be a poor harvest of winter grain.

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We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.

a grain of wheat

grains of oat

The fields were planted with grain.

A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.

Cut along the grain of the wood.

He doesn't like to shave against the grain.

a grain of sand

a grain of salt

all in a robe of darkest grain

[…] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.

The grain of the leather is also sometimes damaged by the filling , by the taking off the hair , and by the river work.

brothers […] not united in grain

He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.

Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains

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