How to Use bumper crop in a Sentence

bumper crop

noun
  • The holidays bring with them a bumper crop of films and TV shows, and The Times is here as your guide.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • March is lambing season, and Fat Sheep had had a bumper crop.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
  • One year’s bumper crop of seeds and nuts can produce a bumper crop of baby squirrels.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Wondering what to do with that bumper crop of summer squash?
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
  • Wondering what to do with that bumper crop of summer squash?
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Not far away, carrot tops sprout near a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • So plant some milkweed to help the monarch butterfly—and to get a bumper crop from your vegetable garden.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 June 2024
  • This spring, a mild winter followed by a wet spring helped produce a bumper crop, but the recent cold snap could soon bring that to an end.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Continue normal new tree care to have your citrus ready to produce a bumper crop in a few years.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
  • This year, there is a bumper crop of ballot referrals from state lawmakers — more than 70.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024
  • While up-and-comers from every state hope national conventions can help them up and come, Virginia seemed to send a bumper crop of them to the RNC.
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • The waters in California’s dry lakes have delivered a living bumper crop — brine shrimp.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • Astronomers have found a bumper crop of exoplanets in the past decade, but current techniques aren't good at detecting the smaller ones that might resemble Earth.
    Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • In fact, a bumper crop of filmmakers, performers and artists of Asian descent were nominated for Academy Awards this year.
    Robert Ito Justin J Wee, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The bumper crop is pushing down prices, which shot nearly to records during the pandemic and boosted the cost of making products ranging from Coca-Cola and ground beef to motor fuel.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Along with vegetables, these privileged young people find plenty of time to sow their own anxieties and reap a bumper crop of conflicts within their pious group of recyclers and scavengers.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Marketers and publicity mavens are trying to figure out how to salvage junkets and Emmy FYC season as a bumper crop of eligible programs have all manner of screenings and events lined up in the pursuit of viewers.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 May 2023
  • Both things feel more at the forefront of today’s pop culture: Video games have never been more mainstream, and today’s bumper crop of cool-as-hell rising tennis stars has injected an incredible level of fresh excitement into the sport.
    Vulture, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The huge amounts of snowfall blanketing California’s Sierra Nevada should lead to a bumper crop of hydropower this summer, reducing the need to burn natural gas as dams churn out electricity.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • Essentially, once stocks from the summer 2022 opium bumper crop that the Taliban allowed to be harvested runs out, many households will experience dramatic declines in their ability to buy food, rent land, maintain housing, and receive medical care.
    Time, 17 July 2023

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