Sentence examples for bucket of maize from inspiring English sources
"I can buy a bucket of maize with my pensions.
Lacking so costly an animal, he pleaded for a more modest penitence, eventually winning his freedom with a bucket of maize meal and a chicken.
In the hardest-hit communities, people are surviving on one meal a day and trading their cows for buckets of maize, the main staple food.
CHIDAMOYO, Zimbabwe — People lined up on the veranda of the American mission hospital here from miles around to barter for doctor visits and medicines, clutching scrawny chickens, squirming goats and buckets of maize.
We did not find an association between case status, the type of container used to store maize (plastic burlap, plastic bucket, woven basket, clay pot, gourd, or sisal), the use of soda and pesticides in the storage area, or the culling of maize kernels that appeared moldy.
They walk 30km carrying 50kg of maize.
There were small farms, full of maize, millet and sorghum.
"Just beans and maize, with a lot of maize and very few beans, cooked in a big pot.
"I got 23 kilograms of maize at the monthly distributions.
The people did not get half a kilogram of maize.
