Sentence examples for precious grain from inspiring English sources

These birds, in their great numbers, do damage on farms, where they eat or soil precious grain feed, but the sight of their swarms, swooping and wheeling in constantly changing patterns against the sky, remains a seasonal marvel.

Here at VICE, we enjoy eating and not fighting in wars over precious grain, so we asked Julian Cribb, science writer and author of The Coming Famine, about how food may shape the future.

A sentence or two, sometimes three, would be spoken, deliberately, thoughtfully, as though the words were precious grains of rice each of which deserved individual attention.

Wine was promoted as a form of alcohol made from abundant fruit (grapes, both vitas vinifera and indigenous varieties, and other fruits) in order to reduce use of precious food grains for alcohol production.

Need for assistance As her husband led the ox and its precious load of grain back to their compound, Ms. Isaka got on her knees, a sieve in hand, and scraped the ground for fallen scraps.

Dacia, in turn, supplied the empire with grain and precious metals.

Many investors have gone long on commodities: from precious metals to humble grains, most of them had a banner year in 2010.

In addition, futures prices for grains and precious metals rose sharply, pushing up the closely watched Commodity Research Bureau's futures index.

On other markets livestock and meat futures were mixed, precious metals were lower, grains and soybeans were mixed and stock-index futures were higher.

On other markets, pork futures advanced while cattle futures retreated; precious metals were higher; grains and soybeans were mixed, and energy futures were lower.

On other commodity markets, hog futures rallied while cattle futures were mixed; orange juice futures fell sharply; oil futures advanced; cotton was up; precious metals were mixed, and grain and soybean futures were mixed.