Sentence examples for were rice from inspiring English sources
noun
Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
A nouveau-riche businessman tosses out Chunghwas as if they were rice.
"There were rice paddies, rivers, forests," he told Time in 1999, in one of the last interviews he gave.
The treatments for the main plot were various planting dates, while the treatments for the sub plots were rice varieties.
The crops covered in the study were rice, wheat and sorghum – all key sources of protein in the world's food supply.
As near as we could tell, the eight treasures were rice, chicken, scallop, dry scallop, ham, black mushrooms, lotus nuts and bamboo shoots.
But his farming roots — both his parents were rice farmers in Laos — and his three decades of carrying out programs to help the poor won over many people.
There were sugar plantations, some of them of considerable extent; and there were rice-fields where dozens and dozens of men were at work.
These were – rice-based farming system (34 households), vegetable-based farming system (70 households), fishery-based farming system (10 households) and farming system based on off-farm income (20 households).
The common denominator is rice.
Philippine staple food is RICE.
