How to Use breadbasket in a Sentence

breadbasket

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  • The area is becoming the nation's breadbasket.
  • Then as now, Ukraine was a breadbasket, and the loss of Ukrainian wheat caused grain prices to soar.
    — Nicholas A. Lambert, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The deal allows Ukraine, one of the world's key breadbaskets, to export grain from three of its Black Sea ports.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • For decades, it’s been referred to as the breadbasket of Europe.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 May 2022
  • Mayfield took the snap and pitched the ball right into Lawrence Guy’s breadbasket with 2:31 left in the first quarter.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • End the day further north in Paonia, a region that’s a bit of a breadbasket and a wine bucket.
    — Ryan Haase, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • The breadbasket doesn't need me around to overflow with abundance.
    — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Farming in Syria goes back many thousands of years and the nation was long a breadbasket for the area.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Russia, produced the flour for matzoh.
    — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The state became the breadbasket of the nation with the bountiful wheat produced.
    — Fred Keller, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2017
  • White settlers later made the area a breadbasket of fruit, wheat and cattle.
    — Kirk Johnson, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The chances of all the world's wheat breadbaskets being affected in the same year rose from 0.3 percent to 1.2 percent.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Farmers in Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, have run out of fuel.
    — Suriya Jayanti, Time, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Marilyn Horne worked right in the breadbasket — right in the sweet spot — of recordings: the second half of the 20th century.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Part of what convinced the Chasseurs to open here is how the town is the breadbasket for the region, with peach trees (hence the name Pêche), wine grapes, tomatoes and herb gardens.
    — Tom Downey, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Rich, fertile soils have helped Ukraine become the second-largest grain shipper and the Black Sea region to be known as the world’s breadbasket.
    — Elena Mazneva, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The pain will be intense for some of the world's poorest nations that rely on Ukraine and Russia as their breadbasket.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Ukraine, sometimes known as the breadbasket of Europe, is a major producer of the crops.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Wheat prices have risen to record highs since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which produces so much grain that it’s known as the world’s breadbasket.
    — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • The overthrows from early in the game recalibrated and fell right in the breadbasket for touchdown No. 1 of 4 for Smith.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of Europe and later of the Soviet Union.
    — Jacob Lassin, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The drop in grain exports from Ukraine, once the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union, has contributed to a spike in global food prices.
    — New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • Taste the bounty of the winter breadbasket with the freshest farm-to-table experiences in the peak of winter.
    — The Palm Beaches, Bon Appetit, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Ukraine had been the breadbasket of Europe, but the US wheat trade was about to dramatically overtake it.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • The first deep ball was textbook, stepping up in the pocket and delivered in the breadbasket just as pressure arrived.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world's breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon.
    — Aya Batrawy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world’s breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2022
  • But suddenly at 34, cutting the breadbasket didn't, well, cut it.
    — Nicole Catanese, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Apr. 2014
  • For centuries, Ukraine has been the breadbasket of Europe, thanks in large part to a band of highly fertile black soil, known as chernozem, that is ideal for growing wheat and other grains.
    — James K. Glassman, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Fields have become battlegrounds in the country’s breadbasket.
    — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024

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