Sentence examples for sack of maize from inspiring English sources

As of last week, the peasants had received only a sack of maize and beans each from the World Food Programme.

Township life went on uninterrupted as a woman carrying a sack of maize on her head took a shortcut across the forecourt of the museum, kids played on homemade go-carts, and a stray dog ran through the dust.

pic.twitter.com/1mSqx51SlS The way the oil price is going, by the end of this year it will be cheaper to buy a barrel of oil than a sack of maize.

Three products stand out from the sales figures at the Pick n Pay store nearest his office, says Mr Roberts: a 25kg sack of maize meal, a working-class staple; the bread baked in-store ("not the cheapest"); and bars of Lindt, a luxury chocolate.

OBC does some good work: in May, it donated sacks of maize towards a famine relief effort in Loliondo.

Attendance had dropped recently though, she said, because the supply of free sacks of maize provided by the World Food Programme has stopped, temporarily, she hoped.

The bustle of Kezi centers on a store where people wait for the Shoeshine bus to come from the city, bringing passengers, newspapers, mattresses, tables, chairs, blankets, sacks of maize; women wait for letters from husbands or lovers, for parcels with nylons and deodorant and Ponds cold cream.

The husband went home to sell a few sacks of maize in order to get enough cash.

The hold up, Kennedy said, was due to the late arrival of the ship's principle cargo, four lorryloads of maize sacks – World Food Program aid that was now being piled onto the loading bay by muscle-bound stevedores.

"There is nothing for us to eat – nothing," Nyakaka says, pushing open the wooden door to her mud-walled home to show the bare spot where usually sacks of sorghum or maize would be stored.

They walk 30km carrying 50kg of maize.