How to Use sugar beet in a Sentence

sugar beet

noun

• The truck’s bed had been used to carry sugar beets and it was rotted out.
  — A.j. Baime, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• The Grand Island beef plant opened in 1965 in a sugar beet farming area.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 7 May 2020
• That number rose as the sugar beet industry grew and the U.S. signed an 1876 treaty with Hawaii.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• The district is the biggest sugar beet producer in the U.S.
  — Kim Chipman, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• Gonzales was born in Denver and worked in sugar beet fields in his youth.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• The sugar beet is a root crop, which is sliced and processed down into sugar cane and molasses.
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• Wyoming Cody: Farmers in the state are wrapping up a difficult year for sugar beets.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• At its far end is Charles de Gaulle airport, a sprawling avant-garde mess that touched down on the fields of sugar beet and tulips next to the village of Roissy in 1974.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• The 81-year-old and his wife split their time between Arizona's parched desert and their Michigan farm, where water brings life to sugar beets, corn and beans.
  — Rebekah Sanders, azcentral, 26 June 2019
• The first cold spell halted sugar beet growth. Ensuing warm weather caused beets to rot in storage.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
• Zhao opts for a similar view from nowhere on Fern’s other gigs as a campground host, line cook, and sugar beet plant worker.
  — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• For 150 years the Buscall family has tended the land, growing wheat, barley and sugar beets.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2020
• Orange orchards and sugar beets from Santa Ana area to Costa Mesa.
  — Shelby Grad, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
• As a teenager, Halvorsen thinned sugar beet fields on his family’s farm outside of Garland for up to 10 hours a day.
  — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
• Two cold spells with warm weather in between harmed sugar beet crops in northern and southeastern Wyoming.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
• Only a handful of GM crops are available on the market, though some - such as corn and sugar beets - show up in a huge variety of food products.
  — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• Her parents moved to Minnesota from Texas in 1923 after they were recruited to work in the sugar beet fields in Hector, Minn.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
• As the actress explained, the Bunyan statue was erected in the middle of sugar beet fields in North Dakota, where there was nothing else around for miles.
  — Jessica Derschowitz, EW.com, 19 June 2021
• Production and/or prices have declined for cotton, sugar beets, and some other field crops, as well as dairy.
  — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019
• The cocoa mass is then mixed with refined sugar, usually from sugar beets.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
• But what looks great from America’s sugar beet fields seems far less positive in the nation’s grocery aisles.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
• Wet and cold weather had the mostly unheard-of effect of harming both sugar beet crops in Northern states and sugar cane crops in Southern states.
  — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
• Farmers have switched to growing corn from sugar beets since the local sugar factory closed.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
• That led to the closure of multiple sugar beet factories in the Westgate region and a rash of angry, violent protests.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
• The company also told the town board that affected farmland (this is sugar beet country) would be buffered from any danger.
  — Audrey Gray, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2021
• Workers at the largest sugar beet processor in the U.S. have rejected a contract offer that includes a 17% pay increase over four years.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022
• Next, sugar beet juice also lowers the temperature of ice.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2020
• Surrounding the city and sprinkled among its tidy tract neighborhoods, potatoes, alfalfa, sugar beets and corn grow in fields.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• Sugar More than 1 billion pounds of sugar is produced across Michigan’s nearly 900 sugar beet farms.
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• Korematsu picked sugar beets, worked at a construction company, and got a welding job in Salt Lake City.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024