"grain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Skin-clad, she waded thigh-deep in rice-swamps, battling with squawking water-fowl for the precious grains.
- He wanted to see his precious grain safely behind the walls.
- They formed an orderly line, accepting small bundles of dried wheat stalks from which the precious grain had been extracted, and stepped forward.
- Jareth let them all have some of the precious grain.
- And it took up residence in the temples, where it hunted rats with great efficiency, preserving the precious excess grain.
- Behind, the wagons of precious grain were hidden in crackling flames.
- He was feeding the stock, using his hat to give them each a handful of their precious grain.
- Alone on the parched plains of Somalia or the Sudan, they lack the strength to lift even a kernel of precious grain.
- He belonged to his people, and she must be grateful for the precious grains of his time which she could glean for herself.
- The time was then propitious for sowing this single precious grain of corn.
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