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Example sentences for "foodstuffs"

Lexicographically close words:
foode; foodful; foodless; foods; foodstuff; fooil; fooit; fool; foole; fooled
  1. Or, more emphatically still, with Cardinal Mercier: "England generously allows some foodstuffs to enter Belgium under the control of neutral countries .

  2. When the police came over and took possession of that sledge which you drove to our place, they said that a sledge laden with foodstuffs had been found at old man Holman’s place over beyond West Creek.

  3. That girl Bertha Doyne was fine and courageous to leave such a helpless household to drive the sledge over for you, and it must have been maddening indeed to discover that it was not foodstuffs after all.

  4. From the royal Larder at York such foodstuffs as venison, game, and fish were despatched salted to wherever the King required them.

  5. The envoys had an interview with a Secretary of State, who inquired to what port they intended to have the foodstuffs conveyed for distribution in the interior of Poland.

  6. Prairie dogs, rabbits and coyotes took toll from the pioneer farmer, sometimes robbing him of the whole of the meager store of foodstuffs so necessary to maintain his family and to secure his residence.

  7. And from that modest cuisine there in the pulsing heart of the bubbly town came truly vast quantities of the trivial foodstuffs that are forever dear to the stomach of the doughboy.

  8. This substance was curative for pigeons and the fractioning process was applied by him to yeast and other foodstuffs with similar results.

  9. It is this consideration that makes the accumulation of authoritative data on vitamine contents of foodstuffs so slow and tedious and one of the reasons why we lack satisfactory tables in this particular at present.

  10. The Germans transferred the contents to a sack, and, as he said, the temptation to pilfer the sorely-needed foodstuffs must have been great.

  11. Rather as an obiter dictum the former declared: "Foodstuffs with a hostile destination can be considered contraband of war only if they are supplies for the enemy's forces.

  12. This question is especially difficult of solution with reference to foodstuffs when seized on their way to a belligerent in neutral bottoms.

  13. If flour or foodstuffs generally were so destined they became contraband of war for the particular case.

  14. It was pointed out, however, that in the seizures of foodstuffs near Delagoa Bay the question of contraband did not necessarily arise, since all trade with the enemy, even in articles the most innocent, was forbidden under heavy penalty.

  15. It was alleged by the captors that the ship's papers were not in proper form, and that besides the flour and other foodstuffs she carried a consignment of lubricating oil for the Netherlands South African Railway.

  16. It is believed by this writer that during the existence of this supremacy at sea she would be able to protect the passage of general foodstuffs from foreign countries to her own ports.

  17. Various articles of the general nature of foodstuffs were seized upon ships plying between New York and Delagoa Bay.

  18. But the majority of the authorities upon the principles of international law admit that foodstuffs which are destined for the use of the enemy's army or navy may be declared contraband in character.

  19. English soldiers felt that by importing foodstuffs into Belgium, America was helping the Germans.

  20. The British and Belgian governments promised to help, as well as the Spanish, and Germany gave permission for foodstuffs to be distributed to non-combatants in Belgium.

  21. Even the solid part of some foodstuffs contains a good deal of refuse (potatoes 20 per cent), while others have none.

  22. She is charged with the care and use of cereal foodstuffs all the way from corn on the cob to flap-jacks and "sinkers," and the cooking outfit and kitchen fire.

  23. The rise in demand for foodstuffs during the war caused planters to shift from tobacco in increasing numbers.

  24. Owing to the increase in the demand for foodstuffs many of the planters switched from tobacco to wheat.

  25. Another Act enabled the Government to requisition food, forage and stores for the Army; another empowered it to requisition foodstuffs withheld "unreasonably," i.

  26. A Special Committee, with Sir Ailwyn Fellowes as chairman, was appointed by the Board of Agriculture and Foodstuffs and held its first meeting on August 10.

  27. His purpose was to use the sea power of Great Britain to keep war materials and foodstuffs out of Germany, but never to go to the length of making an unbridgeable gulf between the United States and Great Britain.

  28. But the most serious matter was that the Declaration would have prevented Great Britain from keeping foodstuffs out of the Fatherland.

  29. In other words he believed that we could safeguard our rights in a way that would not prevent Great Britain from keeping war materials and foodstuffs out of Germany.

  30. The Kremlin's immediate objective, as recently announced by the resolutions voted at the plenary session of Bolshevik leaders, is to increase the supply of foodstuffs and consumers' goods and stimulate their mutual exchange.

  31. It was accomplished through a vast use of forced labor and police discipline, and through the neglect of the manufacturing of consumer articles, the growing of foodstuffs and textile fibers, and the building of homes and retail stores.

  32. The abuses that have grown up in the manipulation of prices by the withholding of foodstuffs and other necessaries of life cannot otherwise be effectively prevented.

  33. It is productive beyond our own needs of many foodstuffs and industrial products.

  34. Togo is self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs when harvests are normal.

  35. Imports of foodstuffs and crude oil increased during 1989, but capital goods imports continued their slide.

  36. He will officially protest against the removal of anything from the hold of his vessel, but he will not employ force to resist us when we begin to land stores, foodstuffs and all that sort of thing.

  37. He could do what he pleased in respect to the non-essentials, but when it came to foodstuffs of any kind or description, he was guilty of a felony if he failed to turn all that he produced or secured into the general stores.

  38. None of my family knows anything about housekeeping or the prices of foodstuffs or house-furnishings.

  39. Slight variations in the cost of foodstuffs or servants' wages amount to practically nothing.

  40. At sixty-four he retired--that is, he ceased endeavoring to increase his fortune by putting up the price of foodstuffs and other commodities, or by driving competitors out of business.

  41. There were food riots usually during years of harvest failure, in which organized groups seized foodstuffs being transported or in markets.

  42. Hoarding of foodstuffs was to be punished.

  43. Inasmuch as the blockade of all foodstuffs is an admitted consequence of blockade, it is obvious that there can be no universal rule based on considerations of morality and humanity which is contrary to this practice.

  44. In one case already quoted in a note to the United States Government a neutral vessel carrying foodstuffs to an unfortified town in Great Britain has been sunk.

  45. The German Government would, therefore, be willing to make the declarations of the nature provided in the American note so that the use of the imported food and foodstuffs solely by the non-combatant population would be guaranteed.

  46. The right to stop foodstuffs destined for the civil population must therefore in any case be admitted if an effective 'cordon' controlling intercourse with the enemy is drawn, announced, and maintained.

  47. Travel may be made safe, goods of great value may be brought up, foodstuffs of the first order may be obtained there; with submarines men may prosecute their labors beneath the sea with very little danger and at a minimum of cost.

  48. Illustrating the use of the submarine supply station, which may be anchored on the bottom in positions known only to the commanders of submarines, who may visit such station and renew their supplies of fuel, foodstuffs and torpedoes.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foodstuffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.