How to Use feedstock in a Sentence

feedstock

noun

• In industry, gas is used both as a feedstock and as a fuel.
  — Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 26 July 2022
• The olive stone can also serve as a feedstock for cellulosic ethanol.
  — Michael Kanellos, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2011
• The use of fly ash as a feedstock eliminates the need to use limestone at all, let alone to superheat it.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Those raw materials were the feedstock of tons of concrete, used to build roads.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2024
• These will need a constant source of feedstocks and nutrients though where these will come from is less clear.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• Another issue is the space needed to grow the feedstock crops.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2022
• Today, 14% of oil and 8% of gas is used to make petrochemicals, the feedstock of plastics.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2021
• The issue is to create a feedstock market for the grass (grains) and clover and alfalfa (legumes) that would grow on the off-year rotations.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• Poultry producers say the ethanol mandate is driving up the cost of their feedstock.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 May 2022
• Florida oranges serve as the feedstock for most orange juice produced in the U.S.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2022
• So the idea of using hydrocarbons as a feedstock for oyster mushrooms makes a lot of sense.
  — Nick Hilden, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2021
• Shares of Archer-Daniels-Midland and Bunge, which produce renewable diesel feedstocks, also slipped on the news.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 25 June 2023
• Demand has also picked up in other places, such as in feedstock for plastics used to make key health equipment.
  — Washington Examiner, 6 Aug. 2020
• This bodes poorly for retail gasoline and diesel prices for consumers since crude feedstock costs account for about 60 percent of prices at the pump.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• The Gary plant’s feedstock — about half paper and 30 percent plastic, along with wood and other trash — will be hauled into the city in about 90 trucks a day, the company has said.
  — James Bruggers, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2022
• The challengers all have processes that can use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2018
• Today, 14 percent of oil and 8 percent of gas is used to make petrochemicals, the feedstock of plastics.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2020
• Even if it’s not used as a primary feedstock, hemp may have other uses for livestock.
  — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 14 Nov. 2022
• Nothing drives land use shifts more than conversion for farmland and feedstock — a result of the push to feed the planet’s 7.8 billion people.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 7 May 2020
• In Brazil—the second-largest ethanol producer behind the U.S.—fuel contains up to 27 percent ethanol, with sugarcane as the main feedstock.
  — National Geographic, 15 July 2019
• Most of the growth is driven by the U.S. shale boom that's producing cheap and ample natural gas to use as feedstock for chemical plants.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• It can be produced from feedstock including waste oil and fats, green and municipal waste and non-food crops.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 22 July 2024
• The difference is in the source material, or feedstock.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• If proved safe, hemp would be a welcome addition to farmers’ feedstock options, Ates says.
  — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 14 Nov. 2022
• The ban on Russian oil includes straight-run fuel oil, a feedstock used to replace heavy crude that’s similar to what Ecuador produces.
  — Lucia Kassai, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2022
• The company will build two facilities to process the feedstock, one in Illinois and one in Indiana.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• Better yet, America’s shale boom has furnished cheap feedstock in the form of natural gas.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2020
• This is the feedstock for storms, including the one now hitting California.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2016
• Those feedstocks are used to create unique men’s wear, women’s wear and accessories, many of which feature a patchwork effect.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2024
• Sustainable aviation fuel company Twelve is buying captured CO2 from an ethanol plant as the feedstock for its fuels.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024