Example sentences for: yam

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

  • Plenty beef, plenty cassava, plenty banana, plenty yam, plenty guinea-corn, plenty mango, plenty groundnut--everything.

  • On the one hand there were names which were qualified before being applied, like wild currant, wild fig, wild geranium, wild indigo, wild parsnip, wild spinach, wild yam; or native flax, nabox, native cherry, native cranberry, native flax, native grass, native myrtle, native parsley, native plum; or names in which the qualifier is a color, as in blue gum, green wattle, white honeysuckle.

  • Feuding Australian Aborigine women would sometimes square off and whack each other with yam sticks until somebody intervened.

  • -- Roger "Cogito Ergo Spud (I Think Therefore I Yam)" Hipp


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