foodstuffs

Example Sentences

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Government vouchers lift income to $150 a month but that still falls far short of the amount a family needs to buy basic foodstuffs -- $645, according to private estimates.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Plans for higher tariffs on furniture, for example, have already been postponed, while levies on some imported foodstuffs have been reconsidered.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

It was sensible to remove those, but it was especially bizarre to introduce charges on foodstuffs not even produced in the U.S. in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Melissa did not cause fatalities in Cuba, according to authorities, but it knocked the stuffing out of the impoverished Caribbean nation, where fuel, electricity, hard currency and affordable foodstuffs were already in short supply.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

They were homeward bound too, with baskets on their heads full of foodstuffs, the son carrying the heaviest.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo