"grain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- From excess grain: civilization.
- And it took up residence in the temples, where it hunted rats with great efficiency, preserving the precious excess grain.
- Reeves opened a distillery to process the excess grain into whiskey.
- In bumper crop times, the excess grain is stored in piles without silos or bins, causing considerable losses.
- This excess grain was the basis of specialization; as some humans ceased laboring for food, they became metal-smiths, shipwrights, soldiers, philosophers.
- This is our new excess grain, Senator.
- Western farmers considered it to be both unfair and discriminatory, since they had traditionally converted their excess grain into liquor.
- The government had to buy the excess grain to keep the price up.
- He climbed down from the cab in the darkness and stretched a hand into the mechanical innards of the powerful machine, trying to sweep away the excess grain.
- In 1917 a mere fifty-three households had been able to sell off excess grain.
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