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"Staple" in a Sentence (31 examples)
Rice is one of those staple commodities.
This is a horror staple - young men and women spend a night of terror in an isolated house.
Instant noodles are a staple among college students.
The squid ink in arroz negro blackens the rest of the ingredients enough to make the Spanish dish a Goth staple.
Cassava is a drought-tolerant crop and consequently a major staple food for millions of people.
The flat front trouser was a staple of that fashion designer's collections.
Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture.
In China, southern people eat rice as staple food; northern people eat wheaten food as staple food.
By the 1830s, coffee was already such a staple that pioneers traveling to the American West made sure to pack coffee beans to have along on the journey.
Onions are a staple in this area of Algeria.
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The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade.
For the increase of trade and the encouragement of the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her majesty was minded to erect the town into a staple for wool.
Calais was one of the ‘principal treasures’ of the crown, of both strategic and economic importance. It was home to the staple, the crown-controlled marketplace for England's lucrative textile trade, whose substantial customs and tax revenues flooded into Henry's coffers.
Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news. Whenever there was a rumour that anything important had happened or was about to happen, people hastened thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain head.
The old staple of coal is a declining traffic; and what remains tends to be hauled a shorter distance, as new power stations are sited closer to coalfields.
Rice is a staple in the diet of many cultures.
In most countries, rubbish makes headlines only when it is not collected, and stinking sacks lie heaped on the streets. In Britain bins are a front-page staple.
Tow is flax with short staple.
to staple cotton
a staple town
a staple trade
To ruin with worse ware our staple trade
What needy writer would not solicit to work under such masters, who will pay us beforehand, take off as much of our ware as we please, at our own rates, and trouble not themselves to examine, either before or after they have bought it, whether it be staple, or not.
wool, the great staple commodity of England
The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
They stapled the documents with an office stapler, putting a staple in the top left corner of each one.
They stapled the housewrap with a staple gun firing large staples.
The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence posts.
Esther's wrists were firmly tied, and the twisted rope was fastened to a strong staple in a heavy wooden joist above, near the fire-place. Here she stood, on a bench, her arms tightly drawn over her breast. Her back and shoulders were bare to the waist.
Fortunately, there were staples in the quay wall, and she was able to climb out of the water.
[Henry II] also granted liberty of coyning to certain Cities and Abbies, allowing them one staple and two puncheons at a rate, with certain restrictions.
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