Sentence examples for husks from inspiring English sources

Lehmann's idea starts with organic leftovers that people normally burn or leave to rot forest brush, corn husks, nutshells, and even chicken manure.

"Rather than women having to trudge into the forest and bring out a big log, they can use brush or corn husks," says Lehmann.

Let them eat maize husks Japan unplugged Tough love, or plain tough?

Source: Jerome Starkey A block of "poppy palaces", guarded by the husks of armoured personnel carriers.

The kernels, however, can be used to feed people whereas the cobs and husks cannot.

Indeed, it is the cost of doing so that makes producing biofuel out of cellulose- and lignin-rich materials, like discarded corn (maize) cobs and husks, less financially viable than generating biofuel directly from more readily digestible corn kernels.

TCS has co-produced a cheap water filter, the Swach, using ingredients such as rice husks.

A few try mini-power stations that use hydropower or burn rice husks or methane from cow dung.

It uses rice husks (which are among the country's most common waste products) to purify water.

Jane Nzembi sells cereals to mothers cooking dinner; she holds cobs of corn with both hands and twists them in opposite directions to strip off the husks.

Hypermarkets have sprouted in the husks of Lodz's abandoned factories.Still, this revolution has been painful.