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• He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.From the entry corn
• The wind causes a flutter in the barley in the field.From the entry flutter
• She stirred up a mixture of oats, barley, cheese, and Pramnian wine.From the entry Pramnian
• The barley flourished in the warm weather.From the entry flourish
• The barley underwent three pearlings in a pearler.From the entry pearling
• The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?From the entry crop
• Her favorite pancakes are semi-homemade — she starts with a certain premade pancake mix and then adds cinnamon, barley flour, and other treats.From the entry semi-homemade
• I was itching to shoot up the developing fields of barley growing before my eyes.2018, Lewis A. Haeflinger, “In My Dreams”, in Life in the World Wind, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry drab
• They are not heavily hopped, instead focusing on barley flavors and mild, bready notes.2014, Corey Herschberger, Brew It!: 25 Great Recipes and Techniques to Brew at Home, Fox Chapel Publishing, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry helles
• (2) that wheat, barley, millet and figs were measured by a system of dry capacity.1975, Atti. From the entry khoinix
• He'd be getting a yield of eight combs of wheat and ten combs of barley per acre.1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting auctioneer Aston Gaze, Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger…. From the entry comb
• Syrup of orgeat was a cooling potion, originally made from barley, later, from almonds, and orange-flower water.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 204. From the entry orgeat
• The distribution of barley is generally on the adret slope, the ubac seeming to be disregarded.1942, Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography: Transactions, Titles and Abstracts, Tokyo: Nihon Gakujutsu Kaigi [Science Council of…. From the entry adret
• A sunny slope is the most important natural factor in the cultivation of barley and wheat.1942, Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography: Transactions, Titles and Abstracts, Tokyo: Nihon Gakujutsu Kaigi [Science Council of…. From the entry adret
• Mutations of the CHI gene have been shown to be necessary for isosalipurposide accumulation in carnation and barley.2015 August 13, “Transcriptomic Analysis of Paeonia delavayi Wild Population Flowers to Identify Differentially Expressed Genes Involved…. From the entry isosalipurposide
• There, we picked up some filleted herring and a loaf of Russian borodinskii bread made with rye, barley, molasses and coriander.2014 February 18, Marcia Vanderlip, “Olympic feast: A Russian (and Ukrainian) way to celebrate the athletes in Sochi”, in Columbia Daily…. From the entry borodinskii bread
• Only the children continued to mop up the meat and vegetable juices on their plates with hunks of barley bread.2013 -, Kate Sedley, Green Man, →ISBN. From the entry mop up
• You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.2011, Harry Nicholson, Tom Fleck, page 250. From the entry gold
• "We're doing barley, grain, alfalfa, red clover hay and sileage, and not one drop of hormones or antibiotics."2009 September 2, Keith Gordon, “Tender, tasty and expensive”, in Toronto Star. From the entry sileage
• Similarly, experiments on sandy (low nutrient soils) from North Africa show that triticale outyields wheat and barley by about 33%.2008, Ashenafi Gedamu-Gobena, Triticale Production in Ethiopia. From the entry outyield
• Eventually a few graylags landed; the Professor dug into his bucket, scattered some barley grain about, and started to scribble notes.1973, Ivan Newton MacCollom, Nancy Lloyd Badore, Exploring Psychology: Introductory Readings, page 405. From the entry graylag
• I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.1909, Johann David Wyss (Susannah Mary Paull, translator), The Swiss Family Robinson, page 462. From the entry corn
• The most abundant N-glycan structure in the barley 2G12 product was a paucimannosidic glycan with Golgi apparatus-specific modifications (MUXF), typical of vacuolar localized proteins.2015 October 14, “Transgenic Production of an Anti HIV Antibody in the Barley Endosperm”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry paucimannosidic
• Earp nodded, then opined, “You'd have to drill in crops more profitsome than barley to make a go of it with hired water.2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Deadly Flood. From the entry profitsome
• Making the wort with nothing but barley malt and hot water is the standard method in Germany, and in many U.S. microbreweries.2004, Harold McGee, “Wine, Beer, and Distilled Spirits”, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, revised edition, New…. From the entry wort
• Wild oats and greenfoxtail are among the most troublesome weeds for farmers growing gramineous crops, such as wheat, barley, rye, triticale and other cereal crops.1990 September 4, Ronald S. Pidskalny, Paul G. Kneeshaw (inventors), Herbicidal composition and method for safening gramineous crops…. From the entry gramineous
• Jih-k’a-tse, Tibet’s second largest city, is located on the Brahmaputra southwest of Lhasa, in Tibet’s major grain-producing area, with highland barley as the major grain.1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Tibet”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 198. From the entry Brahmaputra
• Large quantities of barley water were consumed constantly, but in the old days, a special boy was kept to run out for beer.1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14. From the entry barley water
• Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.1910, Hilaire Belloc, On Something - Volume 10, page 69. From the entry wallop
• Beer made of barley and herbs, lupin and skirrett for hops, was largely consumed in Egypt ; and thence introduced into Palestine.1903, Alexander Rattray, Divine hygiene. From the entry skirrett
• Other areas in Europe historically couldn't produce barley with as high of an extract and chose to undermodify the grain to retain more of its brewing value.2013, Ken Grossman, Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., →ISBN, page 70. From the entry undermodify
• Kate's living room was simply furnished with a large damask-covered sofa that had seen better days, a folding table with barley sugar legs and a couple of upright chairs.2012, Jane Beck, For Better For Worse, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry barley-sugar
• The uredo- and teleuto-stages occur on wheat, barley and some grasses and the pycnidial and aecial stages on species of Berberis and Mahonia, the alternate hosts.1998, G. Rangaswami, A. Mahadevan, Diseases of Crop Plants in India, 4th edition, page 192. From the entry aecial
• Aleuromancy and alphitomancy were almost analogous processes; cakes were made of wheat or barley flour which could not be swallowed by anyone guilty of a given misdeed.1931, Lock translating de Givry Picture Museum of Sorcery. From the entry alphitomancy
• A short-knifed wheat header, such as is used in harvesting wheat and barley in California, if especially strongly built, has been suggested as a practicable contrivance.1921 December 16, F[rederick] G[eorge] Krauss, The Pigeon Pea (Cajanus indicus): Its Culture and Utilization in Hawaii (Hawaii…. From the entry knifed
• Jus' go on like we was gonna buck barley the rest of our lives, then all of a sudden some day we'll go get our pay an' scram outta here.1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 1994, →ISBN. From the entry scram

Meaning of barley

1. noun A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
2. noun The seed of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi).

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Questions about barley in a sentence

How do you use barley in a sentence?

Barley is used as a noun. For example: “He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.”

What is a short sentence with barley?

“The barley flourished in the warm weather.”

What does barley mean?

Barley means a cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.