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How to use sorghum in a sentence

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Sorghum means a cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare). Example: “I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.”

More sentences with sorghum

  • I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.From the entry kidhood
  • What corn and sorghum we'd raised when I was a kid had survived on our scant rainfall.2015, Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry, Penguin, →ISBN…. From the entry hypergreen
  • 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
  • She can't find out why green sorghum should be so quickly fatal to cattle, says an exchange.1900, Queensland Agricultural Journal, volume 7, page 216. From the entry up the stump
  • 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
  • One important difference is the pericarp of sorghum is more bran-like and contains starch granules in the cells.2009, Stanley P. Cauvain, Linda S. Young, The ICC Handbook of Cereals, Flour, Dough & Product Testing: Methods and Applications, DEStech…. From the entry pericarp
  • However, as with maize, the sorghum pericarp is often referred to as a “hull” and is generally removed during processing.2009, Stanley P. Cauvain, Linda S. Young, The ICC Handbook of Cereals, Flour, Dough & Product Testing: Methods and Applications, DEStech…. From the entry pericarp
  • The quest here is one of several around the world, to perennialize everything from sorghum to chickpeas to sunflowers.2007 June 5, Jim Robbins, “A Perennial Search for Perfect Wheat”, in New York Times. From the entry perennialize
  • Sorghum and sugarcane provided molasses and sugar.1986, Elizabeth Silverthorne, Plantation life in Texas. From the entry short sweetening
  • 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
  • 'Yes, ordinary sorghum brooms, which were in short supply in Communist Yugoslavia, like many other basic household goods,' he said with a smile.2026 June 24, Vitali Vitaliev, “Life on the borderline”, in RAIL, number 1064, page 68. From the entry broom
  • 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
  • Here in Maotai, where the pungent odor of fermenting sorghum is overpowering and almost everyone works for the distillery, spiking prices have become a point of pride.2011 February 13, Andrew Jacobs, “Fake Liquors Flow as Demand Soars for China’s Fabled Sorghum Spirit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Maotai
  • This morning it consisted of “whistle pig” (groundhog) and several fat squirrels he had killed the evening before, sweet potatoes, corn pone with sorghum and coffee.1917 February, “After Bruin in the Big Smokies”, in Field and Stream, page 313. From the entry whistle pig

Meaning of sorghum

  1. noun A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
  2. noun Sorghum syrup.

Full definition of sorghum

Questions about sorghum in a sentence

How do you use sorghum in a sentence?
Sorghum is used as a noun. For example: “I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.”
What is a short sentence with sorghum?
“Sorghum and sugarcane provided molasses and sugar.”
What does sorghum mean?
Sorghum means a cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sorghum (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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