How to Use sugar beet in a Sentence
sugar beet
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The truck’s bed had been used to carry sugar beets and it was rotted out.
—A.j. Baime, WSJ, 24 July 2018
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The Grand Island beef plant opened in 1965 in a sugar beet farming area.
—Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 7 May 2020
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That number rose as the sugar beet industry grew and the U.S. signed an 1876 treaty with Hawaii.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
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The district is the biggest sugar beet producer in the U.S.
—Kim Chipman, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2020
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Gonzales was born in Denver and worked in sugar beet fields in his youth.
—Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
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The sugar beet is a root crop, which is sliced and processed down into sugar cane and molasses.
—Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
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Wyoming Cody: Farmers in the state are wrapping up a difficult year for sugar beets.
—USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
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At its far end is Charles de Gaulle airport, a sprawling avant-garde mess that touched down on the fields of sugar beet and tulips next to the village of Roissy in 1974.
—The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
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The 81-year-old and his wife split their time between Arizona's parched desert and their Michigan farm, where water brings life to sugar beets, corn and beans.
—Rebekah Sanders, azcentral, 26 June 2019
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The first cold spell halted sugar beet growth. Ensuing warm weather caused beets to rot in storage.
—USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
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Zhao opts for a similar view from nowhere on Fern’s other gigs as a campground host, line cook, and sugar beet plant worker.
—Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
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For 150 years the Buscall family has tended the land, growing wheat, barley and sugar beets.
—NBC News, 3 May 2020
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Orange orchards and sugar beets from Santa Ana area to Costa Mesa.
—Shelby Grad, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
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As a teenager, Halvorsen thinned sugar beet fields on his family’s farm outside of Garland for up to 10 hours a day.
—Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
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Two cold spells with warm weather in between harmed sugar beet crops in northern and southeastern Wyoming.
—USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
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Only a handful of GM crops are available on the market, though some - such as corn and sugar beets - show up in a huge variety of food products.
—Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
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Her parents moved to Minnesota from Texas in 1923 after they were recruited to work in the sugar beet fields in Hector, Minn.
—Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
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As the actress explained, the Bunyan statue was erected in the middle of sugar beet fields in North Dakota, where there was nothing else around for miles.
—Jessica Derschowitz, EW.com, 19 June 2021
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Production and/or prices have declined for cotton, sugar beets, and some other field crops, as well as dairy.
—Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019
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But what looks great from America’s sugar beet fields seems far less positive in the nation’s grocery aisles.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
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Wet and cold weather had the mostly unheard-of effect of harming both sugar beet crops in Northern states and sugar cane crops in Southern states.
—Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
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Farmers have switched to growing corn from sugar beets since the local sugar factory closed.
—Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
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The company also told the town board that affected farmland (this is sugar beet country) would be buffered from any danger.
—Audrey Gray, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2021
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Workers at the largest sugar beet processor in the U.S. have rejected a contract offer that includes a 17% pay increase over four years.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022
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Next, sugar beet juice also lowers the temperature of ice.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2020
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Surrounding the city and sprinkled among its tidy tract neighborhoods, potatoes, alfalfa, sugar beets and corn grow in fields.
—Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
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Sugar More than 1 billion pounds of sugar is produced across Michigan’s nearly 900 sugar beet farms.
—Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
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Korematsu picked sugar beets, worked at a construction company, and got a welding job in Salt Lake City.
—Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
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Between 55 and 60 percent of it actually comes from sugar beets, according to the USDA.
—Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
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Pembina, a speck of a town on the border, boasts one bar, one school, one grocery store and four churches that cater to the sugar beet farmers and Customs and Border Protection employees who live there.
—New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
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