grain elevator
noun
: a building for elevating, storing, discharging, and sometimes processing grain
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Sitting in his idling pickup one afternoon, Sherlock watched as a Canadian Pacific train rumbled by the grain elevator in the small town of Wimbledon.
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Kirk Siegler, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025
The farming life was challenging, prompting John and Majorie to move to Barlow, North Dakota, where John (his father) worked at the grain elevator.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Barnes’ group can move a million bushels of crops in and out of the massive grain elevators each week, but right now there is very little movement.
—Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
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Kirk Siegler, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025
The farming life was challenging, prompting John and Majorie to move to Barlow, North Dakota, where John (his father) worked at the grain elevator.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Barnes’ group can move a million bushels of crops in and out of the massive grain elevators each week, but right now there is very little movement.
—Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grain elevator
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“Grain elevator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grain%20elevator. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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