Example sentences for: crops

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

  • The long thin strip of Orange Island (Juzizhou), rich in oranges among other crops, bisects the river and in the early 20th century was home to a small band of Western traders and missionaries.

  • Farmers rely heavily on honeybees to pollinate crops, but new, specialized bees are quicker, more effective fertilizers.

  • This water, more akin to the English Lake District than sunny southern Europe, is also of great practical use, irrigating crops, including rice, around Lagos.

  • A piece applauds the phaseout of America's agricultural price supports, while warning that newly liberated American farmers seem to be taking too many risks: If crops fail, there could be a wave of farm failures.

  • What brings all this to mind is the recent controversy over Monsanto Co.'s development of infertile seeds--seeds that yield crops that don't reproduce so that farmers have to buy new seeds each year.


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