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How to use rice in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Rice means cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food. Example: “This is my first rice!”

Examples of rice by meaning

nounCereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

  • Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.1982, International Rice Research Institute, Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice

nounA specific variety of this plant.

  • First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back.1922 April, L. Humbert, “America Has Hard Competition in France”, in Rice Journal and Southern Farmer, volume 25, number 4
  • For commercial purposes, the rices are classified according to the kernel length as short-grain, medium-grain, longgrain and long-slender-grain.2000, R.K Singh, U.S. Singh, G.S. Khush, editors, Aromatic Rices

nounThe seeds of this plant used as food.

  • In Britain too rice is reputed to increase the sexual faculties.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 207
  • On the festival day, rice is cooked together with this rice knot above.2010, S. D. Sharma, Rice: Origin, Antiquity and History

nounThe seeds of wild rice, used as food.

  • We hunt, fish, paddle canoes, have war dances, ride horses, run, jump, gather rice, gather berries, throw spears, rock cradles, worship the Great Spirit, grind corn, have council meetings, and perform dozens of other activities that Indians do.1933, Roy J. McMurray, The Journal of Health and Physical Education, volume 4, number October 1933, page 48

nounAn instance of customization of a user interface.

  • This is my first rice!

verbTo squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).

  • Following ricing, the potato mash proceeds to the drum drier where flaking is done.1961, Potato Chipper, volume 21, page 88
  • Last night I riced the potatoes and added in the cream and butter while they were hot, so today wll we have to do is add flour and roll them out.2015, Lorna Seilstad, As Love Blooms (The Gregory Sisters Book #3): A Novel

verbTo harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.).

  • When ricing, the Ojibway dress warmly at first; by midday they may shed some clothes as harvest toil combines with the hot sun of late summer to warm them.1988, Thomas Vennum, Wild rice and the Ojibway people
  • As it was, the Indian seldom bothered to harvest wild rice on public waters after opening day of the ricing season.2002, David Laursen, A Capital Place: Reminiscences of a Sandy Lake Boyhood

verbTo throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).

  • The couple was well riced and sent on their way.2002, Helen Argers, The Gilded Lily

More sentences with rice

  • Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.From the entry cube
  • He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.From the entry slit
  • I spent two hours cooking my favorite recipe, just to burn the rice and ruin the meal.From the entry just
  • You can have either potatoes or rice with that, but not both.From the entry either
  • After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.From the entry restrict
  • The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.From the entry savory
  • As an unabashed health nut, she always asked for brown rice to go with her vegetarian entrees.From the entry brown rice
  • She always ordered white rice at Chinese restaurants, even though she knew brown rice was healthier.From the entry white rice
  • He came up with a bag of rice, having it carried it up from downstairs.From the entry come up with
  • The caterpillars of the rice moth feed on dry plantstuffs such as seeds.From the entry plantstuff
  • Red beans and rice is a staple on our Monday-night dinner table.From the entry red beans and rice
  • I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor.From the entry spread
  • White rice is rice that has had the brownish hull polished off leaving just the white inner part of the grain.From the entry polish off
  • Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.From the entry cup
  • The secret to a creamy risotto is letting the rice absorb one cup of broth at a time.From the entry risotto
  • The robbin of rice in Malabar weighed about 84 pounds.From the entry robbin
  • I like a little soy with my rice.From the entry soy
  • Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.From the entry basic
  • Rice is a staple in the diet of many cultures.From the entry staple
  • Let's use brewer's rice because it's cheaper.From the entry brewer's rice
  • He ate chicken dopiaza with plain rice and a nan.From the entry dopiaza
  • I forgot about the rice and it boiled over.From the entry boil over
  • I had the khargosh masala with keema rice.From the entry khargosh
  • Most of the rice was spoiled.From the entry most
  • She ordered chicken Malay with rice.From the entry Malay
  • When I don't have time to buy everything at the store, I prioritize fresh fruit and vegetables over foods like rice or noodles.From the entry prioritize
  • This is a nonmixing rice dryer.From the entry nonmixing
  • Don't strain rice in colander, haiyaa!From the entry haiya

Meaning of rice

  1. noun Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
  2. noun A specific variety of this plant.
  3. noun The seeds of this plant used as food.

Full definition of rice

Questions about rice in a sentence

How do you use rice in a sentence?
Rice is used as a noun and verb. For example: “This is my first rice!”
What is a short sentence with rice?
“This is my first rice!”
What does rice mean?
Rice means cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rice (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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