WHEAT in a Sentence

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For WHEAT, below is one of 72 sentences:
But the wheat and grass were sleek velvet under the sunset; the prairie clouds were tawny gold; and she swung happily into Main Street.

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 Meanings and Examples of WHEAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wheat
 n.  a cereal plant grown in temperate countries, its grain is to make flour for bread
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  Scarlett sopped the wheat cake in the gravy and put it in her mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Early May; wheat springing up in blades like grass; corn and potatoes being planted; the land humming.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Fields of springing wheat drew her from the straight propriety of the railroad and she crawled through the rusty barbed-wire fence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  She followed a furrow between low wheat blades and a field of rye which showed silver lights as it flowed before the wind.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  I seen some wheat that must of been five inches high.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  But the wheat and grass were sleek velvet under the sunset; the prairie clouds were tawny gold; and she swung happily into Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  He weighed wagons of wheat on a rough platform-scale, in the cracks of which the kernels sprouted every spring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  The farmers want too much for their wheat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  He asked the veterinarian about the value of different breeds of stock; he inquired of Lyman Cass whether or not Einar Gyseldson really had had a yield of forty bushels of wheat to the acre.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  They pay what they want to for our wheat, but we pay what they want us to for their clothes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  He glanced across the reeds reflected on the water, the quiver of wavelets like crumpled tinfoil, the distant shores patched with dark woods, silvery oats and deep yellow wheat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  I know something about wheat from my farming, and I worked a couple of months in the flour mill at Curlew when I got sick of tailoring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  Farmers coming in with sled-loads of wheat complained that Champ could not read the scale, that he seemed always to be watching some one back in the darkness of the bins.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  A trumpet called behind, ordering another troop to file right into a field of growing wheat.
2  It has done me good, because of the color of the wheat fields.
3  There is no wheat without chaff.
4  I take wheat and yeast tablets daily to purify the blood.
5  Wearing a blue skirt, microstrip wheat color skin looks so healthy, black hair like a waterfall vertically over the shoulders, with a reddish face.
6  We are like wheat, here on earth to ripen.
7  We soon see a field of wheat undulate in the breeze.
8  The farmer grows a lot of wheat.
9  The price of wheat had reached an all-time low.
10  This machine crushes wheat grain to make flour.
11  It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.
12  He finds that his diet of wheat germ and organic honey isn't nutritious at all.
13  As you knew it exported wheat without quantitative limitations last year.
14  We have to sift through the application forms very carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff.
15  When you separate the wheat from the chaff, be sure you keep the wheat.