breadbasket

Example Sentences

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So how do you clean up the country known as "Europe's breadbasket"?

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

A barley risotto studded with dried autumn mushrooms follows, Finland’s breadbasket turned into comfort.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

The swathes of fertile farmland in Sudan, Africa's third-largest country and a potential agricultural breadbasket, have whetted the appetite of the desert Gulf countries across the Red Sea.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

The region is Italy’s breadbasket, typically producing more durum wheat than any other part of the country, and locals often eat pasta twice a day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Above all, the river’s reliable yearly inundations had long made the kingdom the breadbasket of the Mediterranean.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro