Example sentences for: agriculture

How can you use “agriculture” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Spaniards then looked to agriculture to turn a profit and began growing sugar cane, which had been introduced to the Caribbean on Columbus’s second journey.

  • Once dedicated to fishing and agriculture, Torrox-Costa is now an expanding resort with extensive Roman ruins.

  • When Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman toured farms in North Carolina in August, local growers told him they didn't want to have to raise other crops because an acre of tobacco can yield a bigger profit than 50 acres of corn.

  • Despite French denials that their cows are fed on human excrement--"No cow in the world would eat sewage," a French agriculture official protested Tuesday to the Independent of London--this is the aspect of the dispute that has captured the imagination of the British press.

  • Jesse Helms' tobacco interests in upcoming Agriculture committee hearings if Helms doesn't grant Mexico Ambassador-nominee William Weld a confirmation hearing.


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