PEANUT in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for PEANUT, such as:

1. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
2. The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.
3. He started his career as a humble peanut farmer.
4. The chemical was used to kill a mold that grows on peanuts.
5. Mr. Pontellier had forgotten the bonbons and peanuts for the boys.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEANUT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
peanut
 n.  pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
 n.  widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
Classic Sentence:
1  She left the dining room without eating, and went out onto the back porch where she found Pork, barefooted and in the ragged remains of his best livery, sitting on the steps cracking peanuts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  There were apples, yams, peanuts and milk on the table at Tara but never enough of even this primitive fare.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  They had fried eggs for breakfast and fried ham for supper to vary the monotony of the yams, peanuts and dried apples, and on one festal occasion they even had roast chicken.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  He kissed them and promised to bring them back bonbons and peanuts.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
6  Mr. Pontellier had forgotten the bonbons and peanuts for the boys.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence:
1  He started his career as a humble peanut farmer.
2  If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
3  The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.
4  The chemical was used to kill a mold that grows on peanuts.
5  Salted peanuts were recently revealed as the nation's favourite snack.
6  About 3-4 hours before I am ready to leave, I retrace my steps to the trees that I put the peanuts under earlier.