AGRICULTURAL in a Sentence

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We learned that about eighty-five per cent of the coloured people in the Gulf states depended upon agriculture for their living.

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 Meanings and Examples of AGRICULTURAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
agricultural
 a.  relating to rural matters
 a.  relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Atlanta was humming like a beehive, proudly conscious of its importance to the Confederacy, and work was going forward night and day toward turning an agricultural section into an industrial one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  And the agricultural South, waging war with the industrial North, was needing so many things now, things it had never thought of buying in times of peace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  A large warehouse for agricultural implements.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Fern danced again with the young farmer; she forgot Cy while she was talking with a girl who had taken the University agricultural course.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  Even in the better-ordered country districts of the South the free movement of agricultural laborers is hindered by the migration-agent laws.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  But a change is coming, and slowly but surely even here the agricultural laborers are drifting to town and leaving the broad acres behind.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  From the very beginning, at Tuskegee, I was determined to have the students do not only the agricultural and domestic work, but to have them erect their own buildings.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
8  Aside from these there are innumerable smaller meetings, such as that of the instructors in the Phelps Hall Bible Training School, or of the instructors in the agricultural department.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
9  The industrial England blots out the agricultural England.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11  To quote that requires no great wisdom, for the experience of ages has shown us that, in the agricultural calling, man has ever remained more moral, more pure, more noble than in any other.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  In such States, accordingly, we see wealth multiply, both that which comes from agriculture and that which comes from manufactures.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
13  The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  We found that the most of our students came from the country districts, where agriculture in some form or other was the main dependence of the people.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
15  We learned that about eighty-five per cent of the coloured people in the Gulf states depended upon agriculture for their living.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
2  His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct.
3  The party's main power base is in the agricultural regions.
4  There's a glut of agricultural products in Western Europe.
5  Rivers are a blessing for an agricultural country.
6  The fall in the cost of living is directly relevant to the drop in the prices of many industrial products and agricultural produce.
7  In addition there is one other institution which symbolizes the continuing dependency of agricultural workers upon local farmers - the tied cottage.
8  The conditions were unfavourable for intensive agricultural production.
9  The techniques refer to new or modified agricultural practices to reduce soil degradation and erosion.
10  Successful agricultural reform is also a sine qua non of Mexico's modernisation.
11  Many of Yunnan nomadic tribes or those engaged in husbandry, in particular, relied on agricultural products from Sichuan.
12  How is a lawyer different from agricultural inspector? While a lawyer checks inconsistency in witnesses' statements, agricultural inspector checks in Grade A eggs.
13  American farmers, rancher, and agricultural managers direct the activities of one of the world's largest and most productive agricultural sectors.
14  Water for agricultural irrigation is under severe pressure, leading to unsustainable draws from regional aquifers and dropping the water table by an alarming 300 metres in the past two decades.
15  To cut financial support for agriculture would distort substantially the markets of developed countries.