How to Use wild rice in a Sentence

wild rice

noun
Definition of wild ricenext
  • On the menu: quail stuffed with wild rice and white grapes.
    — Marvin Joseph, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The wild rice provides some heft and a toothy bite, and the vinaigrette unites it all.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2021
  • The club moss, or the beaver, or the chipping sparrow, or the black crappie, or wild rice?
    — Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • Use 1 cup of wild rice and 2 cups of water, plus 1/2 a teaspoon of salt.
    — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The pipeline would pass through the watersheds of some of the richest wild rice beds in the world.
    — Sarah Hurtes, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Squab, wild rice, Parisian potatoes and peas with pearl onions were served.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Creamy, herby, a little cheesy, and the wild rice adds the perfect hearty bite.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Add the onion, carrots, celery, thyme, wild rice blend and stock.
    — Claudia Alexander, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • It's packed with healthful veggies and wild rice for dinner that's good for both the soul and the body.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In the 1990s, Banks founded a wild rice and maple syrup company.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Instead of dairy and wheat flour, there is blue corn mush and wild rice sorbet.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2022
  • Add black beans and cooked, chilled wild rice to garden salads.
    — Health.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The fifth meal is a repeat: more chicken thighs, wild rice, and veggies.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 May 2022
  • Meanwhile, add wild rice to a saucepan and cover with lots of water.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Choose whole-wheat bread and pasta, and replace white rice with brown or wild rice.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 May 2020
  • For wild rice, rinse the rice and soak it in water for at least 1 hour before cooking.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
  • In 2-quart saucepan, combine wild rice and 4 cups water.
    — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 2 Dec. 2016
  • Bases include arugula, kale, spinach, spring mix and warm quinoa, and warm wild rice.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Manoomin, a wild rice found around the Great Lakes, is hand-harvested from a canoe.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The dignitaries and stars dined on shrimp, squab, wild rice, Parisian potatoes and peas with pearl onions.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Serve chicken with green beans, wild rice pilaf and sauce.
    — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2016
  • Each kit comes with corn on the cob, wild rice and pine nut salad, and raspberry cream pie.
    — Holly Baumbach, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The wild rice is sacred to the Ojibwe, also called Chippewa.
    — Shantal Riley, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Dinner: Half a cup of brown or wild rice and quinoa with vegetables.
    — Aarti Sanan, Redbook, 20 Apr. 2012
  • This wild rice salad with flaxseed, veggies and berries would add crunch to a picnic lunch.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Don't be fooled by the name; wild rice is actually far from rice.
    — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Hike winter landscape and enjoy bowl of chicken and wild rice soup at the end.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2022
  • For example, the duck breast ($34) is flanked by two fried wild rice arancini balls.
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The tribe fought for decades to get the state of Minnesota to issue water quality standards to protect wild rice and, later, to enforce those standards.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Enlarge / Much of the population of wild rice (Oryzias rufipogon) may actually be a hybrid swarm.
    — Richard Pallardy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024

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