Sentence examples for breadbasket it from inspiring English sources

Although Henan produces a quarter of China's wheat, the area around Qiaobei is no breadbasket; it is hilly, rocky country where the farm families eat most of what they grow.

Harking back to the 19th century, when Brooklyn and Queens were part of America's breadbasket, it will include space where Brooklyn residents can grow vegetables, an orchard featuring varieties of apples that date to Colonial times and, planners hope, an authentic Dutch barn.

The Northeast, where everything but dairy farming was left for dead a decade ago, and where many dairy farmers hold on for dear life, was once its own breadbasket; sometimes it feels as if it can become that again.

In breadbasket states, lawmakers are examining industrial hemp production as a way of boosting farm income.

California often referred to as our nation's "breadbasket" because it grows nearly half of all domestically produced fruits, vegetables, and nuts is deep into its second year of reduced rainfall, the likes of which the state hasn't seen since the 70s.

Ask your server to omit the breadbasket before it's brought to the table.

But the hour-long drive from Indianapolis airport to Muncie into a fall dusk lends it a rustic, russet charm – as though someone took America's breadbasket and decorated it for a harvest festival.

"It just seems to be so pervasive across the country — except for the breadbasket area — that it's hard to pick out anybody who is bouncing back," said Randall W. Eberts, the president of the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Michigan.

When the breadbasket was finally presented, it augured ill.

Three years after King's death, Jackson split with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference-a bitter parting, amid accusations of financial irregularities-and he more or less took Operation Breadbasket with him, renaming it PUSH (People United to Save Humanity).

While there's potential for agriculture – South Sudanese officials keep talking about turning the country into the "breadbasket of east Africa" – it's a long way from happening, and the biggest factory in Juba is the local brewery (run by SABMiller).