CROPS in a Sentence

Learn CROPS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

136 example sentences for CROPS, such as:

1. The summer storm laid the crops.
2. The recent storms have wreaked havoc on crops.
3. Cold weather will retard the growth of the crops.
4. He worked hard to produce good crops from poor soil.
5. There has been no rain — thus, the crops are drying.

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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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  But for the most part the sunny valley was abandoned and desolate and the untended crops stood in parching fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Country negroes flocked into the cities, leaving the rural districts without labor to make the crops.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  It's a relief to have somebody talk something besides crops.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
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.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  He employed a scorched-earth policy, destroying villages and burning crops.
17  He worked hard to produce good crops from poor soil.
18  The recent storms have wreaked havoc on crops.
19  The summer storm laid the crops.
20  The farmers were racing against the rainy season, trying to gather in the summer crops.
21  There has been no rain — thus, the crops are drying.
22  The proposed treaty would give credit to peasant farmers who developed the crops in the first place.
23  This increases the vulnerability of crops to a major outbreak of pests or diseases; so the old breeds are needed for their valuable genetic material.
24  The most significant advantages of genetically modified crops for the developing world are that farmers would have higher yields: they would be able to produce food using fewer inputs: less pesticide, less fertilizer.
25  We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil.
26  Cold weather will retard the growth of the crops.
27  The locust swarm has destroyed all the crops and vegetables.
28  The farmers would be allowed to stay and carry on with crops already planted, but they would have to coexist with new settlers.
29  At the mountain area, tobacco crops exhaust available soil.
30  The pesticide is chemicals which farmers put on their crops to kill harmful insects.