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• Jianbing guozi, a thin pancake made of millet flour, is a popular night snack.2008 July 30, Iain Marlow, “Flee main roads for taste of Beijing”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L2, column 2. From the entry jianbing guozi
• Chinese black vinegar is made by fermenting a mixture of rice, wheat, and millet or sorghum.1999, Martin Yan, Martin Yan's invitation to Chinese Cooking, Singapore: Bay Books, →ISBN, page 229. From the entry Chinkiang vinegar
• (2) that wheat, barley, millet and figs were measured by a system of dry capacity.1975, Atti. From the entry khoinix
• He notes that South Africa has a traditional beer called umqombothi brewed from sorghum, a grain in the millet family.[2023 July 6, Maria C. Hunt, “Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry umqombothi
• In Yingshan county, Hubei, two poor men were hung from a tree after they were found stealing millet.2011, Frank Dikötter, “On the Sly”, in Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, Bloomsbury…. From the entry Yingshan
• In both the varldāv and devr Kotas make offerings of boiled millet, vatm kū, in a ritual called eṛ vecd.2005, Richard K[ent] Wolf, “Affect and Subject”, in The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South…. From the entry vegetarianness
• Millet is a cheap grain, signifying plainness and nonadornment, the simplicity of experience in itself, without pretense and artificial rationalization.2001, Thomas F. Cleary, Classics of Buddhism and Zen, page 545. From the entry nonadornment
• Well dried tiny fish (omena) can be mixed with grain such as maize or millet and milled into flour.1988, Ruth K. Oniang'o, Feeding the Child, page 99. From the entry omena
• Examples are corn, sorghum, wheat, oats, millet, soybeans, and proso.1973, Dan Herndon Jordan, Soil Survey of Cherokee, Gilmer, and Pickens Counties, Georgia. From the entry proso
• Several studies have been carried out on application of fertilizers and manures for improving yield of pearl millet, moong bean, moth bean, sesame, sunflower, etc.2023, Natural Resource Management in the Thar Desert Region of Rajasthan, Springer International Publishing, page 91. From the entry moong bean
• Interpretations of millet cultivation in Manchuria vary, but in general the sites are regarded as related to and derivative from the Cishan culture.2004, Sarah M. Nelson, “Millet and Pigs in Korea and Manchuria”, in Korean Social Archaeology: Early Villages (Korean Studies Series)…. From the entry Cishan
• Typical species found within drainage and depressional wetland areas include softstem bulrush, hardstem bulrush, green bulrush, cattail, wild millet and water smartweed.2001, United States Army Corps of Engineers, chapter 3, in Maple River Dam and Reservoir, Construction and Operation, Cass County…. From the entry softstem bulrush
• In general, the entire sorghum, corn, millet and cotton crop in Honan Province is growing well, even better than in previous years.[1973 August 17 [1973 August 14], “Honan Field Management”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 160, Foreign…. From the entry Shangcai
• One sweet Tteok is called Bukkumi, which is made with a glutinous rice or susu (millet) flour dough stuffed with honey, nuts, cinnamon and sweetened red bean.2013, Mark McWilliams, Wrapped & Stuffed Foods: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2012. From the entry bukkumi
• Long-handle broom, now $1, squeegee, reg. $3.50, now $2, vinyl broom, reg. $4.50, now $3, 8-tie millet or horsehair brooms, reg. priced at $8.95, now $6.1984 September 23, “40-50% OFF our regular prices on Glass, crystal and cookware reduced!”, in The Sun-Herald, page 29. From the entry broomware
• In the P'ing-tung section of this region some rice is grown, and also bananas, sweet potatoes, soy beans, jute, and millet, but the main crop is sisal.1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus, volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 4. From the entry P'ing-tung
• Pigafetta mentions, for example, finding in Cebu such food items as rice, millet, panicum, sorgo, ginger, bananas, oranges, lemons, sugar cane, garlic, honey, coconuts, nangcas, and gourds.1954, Conrado O. Benitez, History of the Philippines: Economic, Social, Cultural, Political, page 39. From the entry nangca
• Africans generally serve highly seasoned stews with a starch - corn, millet, yams, cassava or rice - which they mash and whip to a paste, called fufu in West Africa.[1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fufu

Meaning of millet

1. noun Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
2. noun Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
3. noun A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.

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How do you use millet in a sentence?

Millet is used as a noun. For example: “Jianbing guozi, a thin pancake made of millet flour, is a popular night snack.”

What is a short sentence with millet?

“Examples are corn, sorghum, wheat, oats, millet, soybeans, and proso.”

What does millet mean?

Millet means any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.