How to Use sorghum in a Sentence

sorghum

noun

• By 1850, sorghum brooms had earned the grain a new name: broomcorn.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2016
• Some farmers in the area were starting to grow sorghum.
  — Shayna Harris, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• The rings are hand-shaped, then boiled in water laced with more sorghum to give them a shiny, chewy crust.
  — Jane Black, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• Some had walked overnight to receive bags of sorghum, beans and cooking oil.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
• China also bid on U.S. sorghum to be shipped this April or May.
  — Tao Xiong, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2020
• Cotton is one of the crops that benefits most, along with corn, sorghum, and even Texas pecans.
  — Natalie Brand, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
• The gluten free bread and pizza dough is made from a mix of brown rice, sorghum and garbanzo bean flours.
  — Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 30 May 2017
• Another way to eat sorghum is to pop it like popcorn for a snack.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 9 June 2024
• Papa John’s said that the new pizza crust is made from sorghum, teff, amaranth and quinoa.
  — Thomas Oide, sacbee, 7 Aug. 2017
• In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, melt butter and add sorghum and bourbon.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 28 Dec. 2021
• Yields of other major crops such as corn and sorghum will likely be off 30% to 60%.
  — WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• Another bonus: The gluten free pretzels are made with whole grains, like sorghum and brown rice flour.
  — Samantha Cassetty, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
• Millets, including sorghum, now take up over two hectares of her land – a patch where maize was once the crop of choice.
  — Farai Mutsaka and Jamey Keaten, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2023
• Maggie has more on her mind than watering the sorghum, though.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Light buckwheat flour or sorghum flour can be found at health food stores or online.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
• With the leftover stalks of sorghum, Boening baled them up into rounds of hay for his livestock.
  — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
• Many brewers tried sorghum, but those beers tended to taste metallic and thin.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2021
• The rich black soil of these plains is covered in cotton and sorghum, but underneath run deep coal seams.
  — Ariel Bogle, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• Chick-fil-A said Monday that the bun is made with a mix of ancient grains like millet, quinoa, sorghum, amaranth and teff.
  — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
• Sirad and her family couldn’t grow sorghum for two years on their farm.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Field crops such as rice, wheat and sorghum all declined in value over the previous year.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 3 Oct. 2017
• In coastal Texas, corn and sorghum are harvested by mid-July, which this year was before the heat dome moved in.
  — WIRED, 4 Aug. 2023
• Her recipes cover the grains in all forms: from sorghum syrup to toasted barley tea to a chewy kamut salad.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2021
• But through July of this year, sorghum growers in Texas exported less than $98 million of the crop.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Benkert uses mostly sorghum to sweeten the filling and impart the sense of baking spices.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• This part of the county is acres of sorghum crops, a cashmere goat farm and smaller homesteads on the way to Duley Station Road, where the rest of the 30-head herd lives.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
• Yeshi’s family farms teff and barley, while others in the region farm wheat, sorghum, and corn.
  — Annie Hylton, Longreads, 17 Oct. 2017
• The corn strain feeds on corn, sorghum and cotton while the rice strains eats rice, alfalfa and millet, as well as the pasture grasses and lawns.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• Brewed from sorghum, this rustic farmhouse ale has notes of orange peel and peppery yeast.
  — Brierley Horton, Health.com, 27 June 2019
• Step 2: Make the baked beans sauce: For a sweet and spicy sauce, combine brown sugar, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, dry mustard, and your choice of sorghum syrup, or molasses.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 5 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024