How to Use boll in a Sentence

boll

noun

• An inspector will be sent out to place a boll weevil trap in my yard.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 22 July 2017
• Many bolls are left unpicked owing to labour shortages.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• Rather, the story goes, African-Americans left in 1912 because of the boll weevil or, if there was violence, the Klan.
  — Carol Anderson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2016
• At the Daughters’ memorial building, a design adorns the massive bronze doors — a cotton boll.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017
• Cotton seed is sprouting inside the bolls, and any salvageable lint is stained and of poor quality.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
• As children in the 1960s, Collier and his siblings worked the cotton fields around Black Swamp, lugging burlap sacks up and down long rows and pulling white bolls from between the plants’ needle-like stems.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
• Tross posted about the incident on Facebook last week, including a photo of the boll of cotton that her daughter took home from school.
  — Justin Murphy, USA TODAY, 2 May 2022
• Prior to the storm’s landfall, much of the Louisiana and Mississippi cotton crops were in open boll stage.
  — Jim Foerster, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Standing in his field, Nilakanti watched boll weevils pop up their heads as if in a greeting and then resume their business of eating away his cotton crop.
  — Associated Press, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2003
• But the boll weevil’s story was different in Enterprise.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• Putting so much water into fattening rice grains and swelling cotton bolls seems a criminal waste of a precious resource that urban areas are crying out for.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
• Ceiling lights by Arturo Alvarez resemble cotton bolls.
  — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
• A particular synthetic blend was developed specifically for the boll weevil.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024