Sentence examples for husk from from inspiring English sources

Pull back the husk from a cob of fresh sweetcorn and tie tightly with butcher's twine.

It investigates enhanced types of graphene-like materials synthesized by extracting rice husk from agricultural waste.

It looks like a discarded husk from which the monumental shaft has sprouted, a tiny scrap of history at the bottom of the 23-storey monster.

If you're not careful, by the time you actually buy the ticket, all that's left to see is a dried-up husk from which all the juicy content has long since been sucked, chewed up and spat out by the lucky sods who have got there before you.

There, Wolfe spools out a masterful extended metaphor: that the country crashing into and emerging out of the Depression is like a cicada, which as it enters "the last stage of its life cycle," goes through a magnificent transformation, becoming a winged creature and "leaving behind the brown and lifeless husk from which it came".

Although the Tuscarora are showing a renewed interest in their corn, the whole year's harvest could hang, braided in the husk, from a few rafters in a barn that used to belong, until his death in 2009, to Norton Rickard, a Tuscarora elder who devoted himself to keeping the knowledge — and the corn — alive.

A woman removes the husks from grains of millet near Maradi, Nigeria.

I kept the fresh green corn husks from the cobs to line the steamer.

Pomegranate seeds, which I bought already pried from their husks from the greengrocer, were a glistening garnish.

We ordered several kinds of tamales: those steamed in banana leaves (from the coast) and those in corn husks (from central Mexico).

The juice of young bamboo has been used for 800 years in southwestern China to remove the husks from short-grain rice.