wheat

[wiːt]

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.