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Example sentences for "buckwheat"

Lexicographically close words:
bucks; buckshot; buckskin; buckskins; buckthorn; bucolic; bud; budded; budders; buddhi
  1. The document in question had a sinister look, it is true; it was crabbed in text, and from a broad red ribbon dangled the great seal of the province, about the size of a buckwheat pancake.

  2. Mi opinyun now iz, that he who livs to see next year, will see buckwheat a bigg crop!

  3. Theze short essays are like buckwheat slap-jacks; evryboddy seems tew like them hot, and tew git them hot iz jest where the little joker cums in.

  4. Speaking of buckwheat cakes, you can go out here most any time and catch a nice mess running about a half a pound and game all the way through.

  5. The soil in the valleys and plains of the department, especially in the Bresse, is fertile, producing large quantities of wheat, as well as oats, buckwheat and maize.

  6. An immense quantity of buckwheat honey is collected in Russia, bees showing a marked preference for the flowers of the plant.

  7. In the United States buckwheat is sown at the end of June or beginning of July, the amount of seed varying from 3 to 5 pecks to the acre.

  8. Buckwheat is grown in Great Britain only to supply food for pheasants and to feed poultry, which devour the seeds with avidity.

  9. As compared with the principal cereal grains, buckwheat is poor in nitrogenous substances and fat; but the rapidity and ease with which it can be grown render it a fit crop for very poor, badly tilled land.

  10. The last name is due to its seeds which are about the size of a buckwheat grain and otherwise resemble it.

  11. It is known as ironwood and buckwheat tree.

  12. After cultivation until midsummer buckwheat makes a satisfactory orchard crop in some cases.

  13. Sometimes also these two kinds of crops, as buckwheat and clover for example, may be combined with good results.

  14. Buckwheat should not be used to excess on the heavier types of soil as it is rather hard on the land.

  15. Buckwheat is probably about equally as good as rye for an orchard cover crop, although it does not produce quite as much organic matter.

  16. Plow early in spring, cultivate to midsummer, and then sow rye or buckwheat as a cover crop July fifteenth to August fifteenth.

  17. If you'll spend the night, I'll give you buckwheat cakes for breakfast," said the Big Brown Bear.

  18. I wish I had some buckwheat cakes with me.

  19. He spread a cloak on a rise of the ground, and placed on it a roast chicken, a bit of cold salt pork, some bread and buckwheat cakes.

  20. A few buckwheat cakes served as a desert to this modest repast.

  21. Every man pulled from his bag or his pocket a bit of bread or a buckwheat cake, and followed the example of his general, who had already divided the chicken between Roland and himself.

  22. And buckwheat is such a splendid thing for them.

  23. Joe declared they always had to fish him out of bed, and that buckwheat cakes was the best bait that could be used.

  24. The chickens made bad work, it must be confessed, though the attractions of their buckwheat field were pretty strong, and Hal ingeniously repaired the fence with brush; but now and then there would be a raid.

  25. But the buckwheat lay like a weed in the field, scorched black by the lightning.

  26. Opposite the corn was a field of buckwheat, but the buckwheat never bent; it held its head proud and stiff on the stem.

  27. But the buckwheat stood straight and proud.

  28. Professor Johnston touches upon this notion in some remarks he makes on the disadvantage of buckwheat as a staple article of food.

  29. Woman (to tramp)--"I can give you some cold buckwheat cakes and a piece of mince pie.

  30. The Practical Farmer gives the following rough but good way to store and keep apples: "Spread plenty of buckwheat chaff on the barn floor, and on this place the apples, filling the interstices with the chaff.

  31. He began to grow moody and sullen as the buckwheat cakes disappeared, and when thirty of them had been disposed of Billy felt himself ready to meet Mr. Wrangler.

  32. He did not question her further, but went into the kitchen where his mother was getting the griddle hot for the buckwheat cakes and the spider hot for the sausages, and he told her of Wrangler and the child.

  33. A1/2 cup white flour 3 cups buckwheat flour Beat, set in cool place until morning; add a little warm water if too thick and use less flour next time.

  34. Old-time Buckwheat Cakes--corn meal and flour= Stir A1/2 cup of yellow corn meal into 1 qt.

  35. Buckwheat honey was the dear dream of many a long hour's wistful meditation.

  36. When it has grown two inches, sow plaster as before; and when the buckwheat has grown as large as it will, harrow down and plow under about five inches deep.

  37. Leaves from the woods, buckwheat straw, bean, pea, and hop vines, etc.

  38. Harrow down the same way it was plowed, and immediately sow and harrow in two bushels of buckwheat per acre.

  39. Neither would the writer be understood as arguing that a crop of clover and one of buckwheat should be turned under for each crop of potatoes; where land is already in high condition, it may not be necessary.

  40. When Petrovna takes out the red dress for the little girl and a large package of buckwheat which mamma has sent to the family, every one in the house shouts with delight.

  41. If they can get some buckwheat and dried herring, once in awhile, they think themselves well-off.

  42. And now a roast lamb is served with salted cucumbers, followed by buckwheat pudding, and ices, for dessert.

  43. Corn and buckwheat are very heatening, and the latter can be entirely dispensed with in warm localities.

  44. The coffin and the potash barrel filled the cart's breadth; the sacks of buckwheat steadied the barrel before and behind.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buckwheat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    grass; oats; wheat