Sentence examples for great grain from inspiring English sources

On the great Grain Race, he was almost washed away in a hurricane.

Steel-cut oats can make a hearty and healthful breakfast, but as Martha Rose Shulman recently discovered, oats are a great grain at dinnertime too.

FOR a brief period it looked like "Food Crisis 2.0", or another "great grain robbery"—the episode in 1973 when a Russian harvest failure sent commodity prices soaring.

Leftovers make a great grain salad the next day: think tabbouleh and add masses of freshly chopped herbs, a judicious amount of good olive oil and a spritz of lemon juice.

Geared mills turning grindstones (see gear) were used in the Roman Empire, but their fullest development occurred in medieval Europe, in, for example, the great grain mill near Arles, France, which, with its 16 cascaded overshot wheels, each 7 feet (2 metres) in diameter, and wooden gearing, may have met the needs of 80,000 people.

Apprenticed at 18 on a four-masted barque that ran the last great Grain Race from South Australia to Ireland, he first ran up the oily rigging, teetering 160 feet above Belfast, in grey flannel trousers and a Harris tweed jacket.Melons and SancerreAll this sounded rather upper class.

Economically the country became much richer and much more diverse as industry developed in the North, cotton spread through the lower South, and the Midwest turned into one of the world's great grain-producing areas.

The brand and its siblings like Alpha-Bits, Great Grains, Honey Bunches of Oats, Pebbles and Shredded Wheat are sold by a company named Post Foods, spun off last year from Ralcorp.

"The Grape-Nuts consumer is free-spirited and independent-minded," says Mangala D'Sa, who as the brand director for what Post Foods calls its healthy brands oversees Grape-Nuts along with Great Grains, Post Raisin Bran and Shredded Wheat.

Walk to Greta's Great Grains Bakery and Cafe (24 Pleasant Street, 978-465-1709) and choose from the enticing Austrian pastries with Bavarian cream, fruit and, of course, chocolate ($1.50 to $2). 10 a.m. 4. Close to the Sea Drive across the Plum Island Turnpike, a two-mile causeway linking downtown Newburyport to Plum Island with its majestic beach, salt marshes and abundant bird life.

Great Grains, Great Gains Trading the grains in a weather market can be fun.