beet

Example Sentences

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We head to outdoor restaurants where no one is present and the eager wait staff want to feed her bacon and me, my beet salad.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Next month, she said, organizers plan to honor the Japanese-Mexican Labor Assn., a union formed by sugar beet workers in 1903 that conducted a 48-day farmworker strike 123 years ago, long before Chavez.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Food companies started replacing it with cane or beet sugar more than a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

"Once upon a time potatoes and sugar beet weren't grown here and now they're one of the main crops in the area," said Sarah-Jane Taylor.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

His face and neck were purple as a beet, and the spittle was flying all over the oblates as he spewed his sermon.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz