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How to use beet in a sentence

32 example sentences · noun, verb

Beet means beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. Example: “The beet is a hardy species.”

Examples of beet by meaning

nounBeta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

  • The beet is a hardy species.

nounA beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.

  • In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42

More sentences with beet

  • When he saw it, he blushed a beet red.From the entry blush
  • Carbonatation is used in refining sugar from sugar beet.From the entry carbonatation
  • She felt terribly congested, her hands started to swell and her face turned beet red.1999 March 7, Jennifer Steinhauer, “A Rise in Allergies to Latex Threatens Medical Workers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry beet red
  • Tanya had the Borsch which is beet soup made Russian style for $2.99.1997 March 20, “Dining Out the College Way with Trish, Roula and Friends”, in Dave Spencer, editor, The Student Voice, volume XXX, number…. From the entry blintsy
  • George called for another fish, plus rice and a dish of silver beets.1990, Alan Sillitoe, chapter 5, in Last Loves, London: Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry silver beet
  • The countryside through which the line passes grows some beet, too.1957 May, Walter McGrath, “The Thurles-Clonmel Line, C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 320. From the entry despatch
  • The beet of medium length (an intermediate variety) will grow shapelily in shallowly-dug or stony ground.1925 April 15, “Food Paragraphs”, in Derby Daily Telegraph, volume LXXV, number 14,153, page 6. From the entry shapelily
  • All these substitutes for cane or beet sugar are good for certain uses.1918 November, “Lesson 121: Sugar-saving desserts and confections”, in The Cornell Reading Course for the Farm Home. Food Series.…. From the entry beet sugar
  • An unusual effect of beets is that they can cause “beeturia,” or a red coloration to the urine, after ingestion.2016, Andy Brunning, Why Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell?: Fascinating Food Trivia Explained with Science. From the entry beeturia
  • Besides the decidedly unvegetarian salmon, there were baked potatoes (acceptable), beet salad (dubious), and lima beans (clearly inedible).2009, Susannah Terrell French, Operation Redwood, New York, N.Y.: Amulet Books, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry unvegetarian
  • Although bortsch is usually made from root vegetables with a large proportion of beets, not all bortschs contain beets.1972, “[Jewish cooking] Schav Bortsch (Spinach Bortsch)”, in Anne Willan, editor, Grand Diplôme Cooking Course, volume 9, [Danbury…. From the entry bortsch
  • Following the kootya, a borsch (beet soup) is served.1962 January 4, Zora Unkovich, “According to the Julian Calendar: Tradition Decrees 12 Courses at ‘Svyata Vechera’ Meal”, in Pittsburgh…. From the entry uzvar
  • “Coffee” might be largely sawdust, or wheat, beans, beets, peas, and dandelion seeds, scorched black and ground to resemble the genuine article.2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, in The Atlantic. From the entry genuine article
  • What can I get you?” “I guess I'll have the beet salad, and, um, the risotto, and a glass of red wine.2016 April 11, Ali Waller, “The Unincludeds” (3:58 from the start), in American Dad!, season 13, episode 11, spoken by Roger (Seth…. From the entry mostarda
  • Molass quality depends on the maturity of the sugarcane or sugar beet, the amount of sugar extracted, and the method of extraction.2012, Steve Esomba, Global Tourism & the Environment, page 4. From the entry molass
  • Father had a bit more success with his beet experimentation, inventing such delicacies as beetloaf, Sunday morning succotash surprise and beet omelets.1999 February, Maria M Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American, New York: Penguin…. From the entry beetloaf
  • Another soup is cousinette, a vegetable broth made with beet greens, spinach, lettuce, sorrel, and cousine (a wild member of the mallow family).1997, Paola Gavin, French Vegetarian Cooking, →ISBN. From the entry cousinette
  • She soon joined the Spreckels Company near Salinas, Calif., where she worked on a sugar beet that would be resistant to the curly top virus.1997 June 18, Karen Freeman, “Katherine Esau Is Dead at 99: A World Authority on Botany”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 May 2014. From the entry curly top
  • One variety of garden beet, crapaudine ( GBC ) from the compagny Semaphor carries the same Hind III ctDNA profile as the male sterile Owen.1988, E. Magnien, Biotechnology Action Programme, page 601. From the entry crapaudine
  • Earliest sown or planted — round beet, peas, forcing carrot, lettuce, radish, early cabbage, peppergrass, mustard, spinach, kohlrabi, turnip, scallion, early potato, fetticus.1945, Maurice Grenville Kains, Five acres and independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm. From the entry fetticus
  • Honey, maple sirup or sugar, molasses, and various commercial sirups can well be used in the place of cane or beet sugar.1918 November, “Lesson 121: Sugar-saving desserts and confections”, in The Cornell Reading Course for the Farm Home. Food Series.…. From the entry sirup
  • In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.1918, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in A Traveller in War-Time, New York: Macmillan, page 77. From the entry atilt
  • The baby carrots and the little rosebud beets which are being thinned out of the garden should be canned at the present time.1916 September, T. J. Newbill, “Canning Vegetables by the Cold-pack Process”, in Monthly Bulletin, volume 4, number 6, Puyallup, Wash.…. From the entry baby carrot
  • In transgenic studies, over-expression of the sporamin gene from sweet potato in sugar beet did reduce the growth and development of the sugar beet cyst nematode, H.2015 September 23, “Transcription of Biotic Stress Associated Genes in White Clover ( Trifolium repens L .) Differs in Response to Cyst…. From the entry sporamin
  • Endoarabinanase, α-rhamnosidase, pectate lyase and endogalactanases, all related to pectin degradation, were mainly produced on sugar beet pulp, but rarely were all four activities produced by one species.2015 August 1, Isabelle Benoit et al., “Closely related fungi employ diverse enzymatic strategies to degrade plant biomass”, in…. From the entry endogalactanases
  • They took their cues from the color of his bald head, which turns crimson when embarrassed, scarlet when angry and beet red when ready to explode.2012 February 23, Greg Bishop, “For 41 Years, Town Cheers Danny’s Boys”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry beet red
  • It was heading a freight train, loaded mainly with sugar beet, en route from the country area of Angus to the beet factory at Cupar (Fife).1953 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Scottish Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 141. From the entry sugar beet
  • In Somerset, for example, the local farmers would often boil down the beet juice to create a honey tender, a viscous syrup that sweetened the harvest porridge.1922, Arthur J. P. Williams, Rural Industries of the West Country, page 42. From the entry syrup
  • It should not be planted to sugar beet, fodder beet, alfalfa, red clover, serradella, potato, asparagus, or fennochio as these plants are attacked by the fungus.1920, Burton Edward Livingston and Jacob Richard Schramm [eds.], and Mildred Stratton Krauss [compil.], Botanical Abstracts (Williams &…. From the entry fennochio
  • The vegetables, which are often difficult for the duckman to obtain, the farmer sorts out from his potatoes turnips, beets, cabbages, etc., and places but little value upon them.1906, Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company, Artificial Incubating and Brooding. From the entry duckman

Meaning of beet

  1. noun Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
  2. noun A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.
  3. verb To improve; to mend.

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Questions about beet in a sentence

How do you use beet in a sentence?
Beet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The beet is a hardy species.”
What is a short sentence with beet?
“The beet is a hardy species.”
What does beet mean?
Beet means beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

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