breadbasket

Example Sentences

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“We are the breadbasket of the world but we’ve been overlooked for too long,” said Andrea Shabaglian, a vice president of the Fresno Republican women’s group.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Experts warned that Ukraine is Europe’s breadbasket and Europe would starve.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

Holguín was once known as the breadbasket of Cuba because of its rich agricultural land.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

By late August, further south in the province of Punjab, floods had submerged 4,500 villages, overwhelming "Pakistan's breadbasket", in a country that can't always afford to import enough food.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

It’s not that the Cape of Good Hope itself is too dry for agriculture: it is, after all, the breadbasket of modern South Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond