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Example sentences for: grain

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

If the tall rectangular block of Orsanmichele looks to you more like a grain silo than the church it’s supposed to be, that’s because it has been used as both.
You can see the monuments right across the Prairies — huge cathedral-like grain elevators.
Finally, Sparta, with naval help from former foe Persia, blockaded what was then the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles Strait), thus cutting off Athens from its crucial supply of grain.
And there are cabinetmakers I have heard of who can diagnose the health of the tree (when it was alive) by the feel of its grain in a length of seasoned lumber.
Flowering orchards and gentle grain fields replace hotels, apartments, and snack bars.