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How to use granary in a sentence

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Granary means a storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed. Example: “Farmers are busy reaping wheat to ensure every grain is transported into granary.”

More sentences with granary

  • Farmers are busy reaping wheat to ensure every grain is transported into granary.2022 June 10, “Wheat harvest is under way in Luopu County, NW China’s Xinjiang”, in Song Duer, editor, Tianshannet (Xinjiang News)…. From the entry Duolu
  • A very similar granary with a light green glaze is illustrated in the Charles B.1987, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, →OCLC, page 35. From the entry Sijian'gou
  • Granaries have been built in every brigade in the commune.1969 December 3 [1969 December 2], “Shensi Grain Reserves”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 233, Foreign Broadcast…. From the entry Foping
  • This contained the granary, with an upper doorway, and also, to judge from old drawings, the main hospitate range.1912, David Herbert Somerset Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, page 867. From the entry hospitate
  • These three birds are at a “granary tree” or “nut pole,” where there are many stored acorns, but no grain, despite the name.2011, Peter Goodfellow, Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build. From the entry granary tree
  • In parts of its range the acorn woodpecker does not construct a granary tree, but instead stores acorns in natural holes and cracks in bark.2010, Six Rivers National Forest (N.F.), Beaverslide Timber Sale and Fuel Treatment Project: Environmental Impact Statement. From the entry granary tree
  • There is a granary beside the coke ovens, where they used to keep the feed for the gallowas, the ponies from the pit.2006, Bill Griffiths, Stotty 'n' Spice Cake - The Story of North East Cooking, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry gallowas
  • The Dutch-style Merchant's House, the granary and the malt house are still standing, and the old stevedores' cottages are now private homes.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 369, about Swaffham Bulbeck. From the entry Commercial End
  • Sarra, wife of William Beyonde Toune, had acted as compurgatrix for Clarence de Upcote, accused of counterfeiting a key to a rectory granary.1965, Roy Martin Haines, The Administration of the Diocese of Worcester in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century, Church Historical…. From the entry compurgatrix
  • FIFTY-THREE year-old Chou Chuang-nu, leader of the Chouwu brigade in the Fucheng commune in Kwangtung province’s Tungkuan county, put down his sickle and led me to a small granary.1972 April, “Science in the Countryside”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 4, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6. From the entry Tungkuan
  • News also had been received of a rising at Pao-feng, twenty-three miles west, where the people were mid to be looting the granaries of the wealthy.[1901, Marshall Broomhall, quoting C. Howard Bird, “My Escape from Siang-Ch’eng”, in Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission…. From the entry Baofeng

Meaning of granary

  1. noun A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.
  2. noun A fertile, grain-growing region.

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Questions about granary in a sentence

How do you use granary in a sentence?
Granary is used as a noun. For example: “Farmers are busy reaping wheat to ensure every grain is transported into granary.”
What is a short sentence with granary?
“Granaries have been built in every brigade in the commune.”
What does granary mean?
Granary means a storage facility for grain or sometimes animal feed.

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