How to Use bushel in a Sentence

bushel

noun

• Bring a bushel of first-rounders to Ainge and the Heat would be on.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
• Sure, these two will end up with millions by the bushel.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 18 July 2022
• Get half a bushel for $40 or a quarter-peck bag for $7.
  — Hannah Herrera Greenspan, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• But as of this week, the price is hovering around $9 a bushel.
  — Musadiq Bidar, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2019
• The acorns that sink to the bottom are packaged in burlap and sold by the bushel to the department.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2021
• Corn futures trade at $8 per bushel, the highest price in a decade.
  — CBS News, 19 June 2022
• The chief traded Abe to a tavern owner for a bushel of corn.
  — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2022
• The price of wheat futures fell by more than 5% Friday to around $760 per bushel.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• Futures rose 1% Friday to $5.71 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade jumped 6% on Monday to $8.79 a bushel.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
• Wheat and corn prices rose more than 5% per bushel and are already up more than 20% so far this year.
  — Damian J. Troise, Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2022
• That’s an increase of nearly $1.40 per bushel from a month ago and nearly twice the price of a year ago.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2021
• The price of wheat futures fell by more than 5 percent on Friday to around $760 per bushel.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2022
• School days and other civic functions were canceled by the bushel.
  — Michael D. Regan, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• A few years ago, a senior colleague told me not to hide my light behind a bushel.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• Wheat prices in Chicago, the global benchmark, have surged more than 50% this year and are close to record highs at about $12 a bushel.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• For about four years, farmers had been paid less than $8 to $9 a bushel for soybeans, below the break-even point for many.
  — Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
• At the very least, a person could shut up and hide ignorance under a bushel.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2022
• Other questions asked students to set a price for items such as a bushel of grain, a piece of lumber and a jug of milk.
  — Amanda Watts, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
• On Monday, wheat traded at a little more than $8 a bushel.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• Until recently, that drought a decade ago was the only time that corn cost more than $8 a bushel.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
• The Arndt family’s orchard has one bushel — about 40 pounds of apples — for just $30.
  — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• With this in mind, Pizza Hut Japan did the logical thing and threw roughly a bushel of it on a medium pie.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Hawks made a bushel of them during a 7-2 loss at the United Center to extend their winless streak to seven.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• The only option clearly off the table is knocking on agents’ doors with bushels of $1,000 bills for their clients.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• One peck of apples is a quarter of a bushel, which gives you a more manageable 10.5 pounds of apples.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• Because a lot of folks outside the Bay Area thought you guys traded your souls for a bushel of titanic home runs.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• Full bags hold three-quarters of a bushel and weigh more than 30 pounds each, depending on the variety.
  — Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Forklifts took them to waiting trucks — along with several bushels of bamboo for road snacks.
  — Ashraf Khalil, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
• Virginia said that Edna never talked about it, but Edna was a surgical nurse when ribs were taken out in bushels of six to 10 at a time.
  — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024