wheat

Definition:
1. A plant grown for its grain that is used to produce the flour for bread, cakes, pasta , etc.; the grain of this plant.
2. Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains.
3. Grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour.

Use 'wheat' in a sentence:

• 1. The wheat is coming along fine.
• 2. Aid officials said that the first emergency food rations of wheat and oil were handed out here last month.
• 3. The company's plan supposes a steady increase in wheat yield.
• 4. The wheat is growing well.
• 5. We shall turn this piece of wasteland into wheat fields.
• 6. They had been forced to uproot their vines and plant wheat.
• 7. She stored the cracked wheat in a bucket.
• 8. World stocks of wheat were getting very low.
• 9. The aphid is now laying waste to the wheat and barley fields.
• 10. Grasslands have been broken and planted to wheat.
• 11. A bumper wheat harvest is anticipated [expected] this year.
• 12. The wind rippled the wheat in the fields.
• 13. Remember the old proverb which says, "Bad wheat always makes poor bread!"
• 14. He raises 2,000 acres of wheat and hay.
• 15. Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks.
• 16. Most tortillas are made from ground corn, but sometimes wheat is used.
• 17. It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.
• 18. During the dry season, they grow wheat in the same fields.
• 19. This area is most suitable for growing wheat.
• 20. The fields around had been sown with wheat.
• 21. This year's yield of wheat is higher than ever before.
• 22. It's still too early to harvest the wheat now.
• 23. A storm is coming. Let's get the wheat under cover quickly.
• 24. Farmers are using the Low Till method to plant wheat after harvesting rice.
• 25. In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing the poor wheat harvest in other countries, quietly cornered the world wheat market.
• 26. Wheat is transported from the farms to mills.
• 27. Most breads, if they are not wheat flour, tend to be soya flour.
• 28. It isn't always easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.
• 29. Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum and wheat doubled between 1983 and 1985.
• 30. She is a leading authority on wheat diseases.
• 31. Sift out the wheat from the chaff.
• 32. The wheat sprouts are growing very evenly.
• 33. Wheat is grown in places which have cold winters and warm, dry summers.
• 34. Let's sow our field with spring wheat.
• 35. They have been bartering wheat for cotton and timber.
• 36. The fields are under wheat, rape and other crops.
• 37. The fields are under wheat, rape, and other crops.
• 38. Wheat, maize and sugar beet are planted in rotation.
• 39. I take wheat and yeast tablets daily to purify the blood.
• 40. Wheat was in surplus that year.
• 41. The price of wheat has decreased by 15%.
• 42. The local people bartered wheat for tools.
• 43. Use strong white flour, and if you can get hold of durum wheat flour, then so much the better.
• 44. Canada produces wheat and furs.
• 45. The region produces over 50% of the country's wheat.
• 46. The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes.