vegetables

Example Sentences

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Some plots lie uncultivated, while thin lines of grass grown as animal fodder weave between vegetables to stretch scarce inputs.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

“Obviously, I would prefer people get fiber from plants, fruits, vegetables, whole grains,” said Joanne Slavin, a food-science and nutrition professor at the University of Minnesota.

From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026

I decide to work on growing vegetables when everyone I love, and everything that was familiar, is either gone, too far away or dead.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

She doesn’t let them enroll in more than one extracurricular at a time “because I don’t want to drive them to more than that,” and doesn’t force them to eat their vegetables.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

She’s some sort of mechanized humanoid, made up of spare computer parts, all the leafy green vegetables that no one ever eats and thesaurus pages.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen