BEAN in a Sentence

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For BEAN, below is one of 22 sentences:
The garden with its rows of corn, bright-yellow squash, butter beans and turnips was well weeded and neatly fenced with split-oak rails.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bean
 n.  various edible seeds; small oval or roundish seed, berry, nut, or lump
Classic Sentence:
1  The bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event, was unable to stop, and laughed so heartily that she burst.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
2  The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
3  She ate well, declaring that the mild weather made her feel better, and pressed a second helping of beans on Jotham Powell, whose wants she generally ignored.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  Some corn and a few yams and beans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  The garden with its rows of corn, bright-yellow squash, butter beans and turnips was well weeded and neatly fenced with split-oak rails.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  That day the floor was covered with garden things, drying for winter; corn and beans and fat yellow cucumbers.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
7  And so he had soup and bread, and boiled beef and potatoes and beans, and pie and coffee, and came out with his skin stuffed tight as a football.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
8  In a village dwelt a poor old woman, who had gathered together a dish of beans and wanted to cook them.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN
9  Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
10  And garnish the sturgeon with beetroot, smelts, peppered mushrooms, young radishes, carrots, beans, and anything else you like, so as to have plenty of trimmings.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
11  He looked to see if the dish of beans was still there; the dish of beans had disappeared.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
Example Sentence:
1  I'd like to add some pepper to the bean curd.
2  Every bean has its black.
3  Do not add salt to beans when cooking as this tends to toughen the skins.
4  That helped drive world growth, boosting global demand for everything from oil and aeroplanes to soya beans.
5  Serve the lamb with new potatoes and green beans.
6  Raw coffee beans are green in colour.
7  Stir the mixture to prevent the beans sticking to the bottom during cooking.
8  Serve hot, with pasta or rice and French beans.
9  I braised some beans to accompany a shoulder of lamb.
10  There are literally hundreds of varieties of these two species of legume, including beans and peas with many different sizes, colors, shapes.
11  And 60 percent of the time, the technique was successful in dislodging beads, beans, and other small items.