GRAIN in a Sentence

Learn GRAIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
99 example sentences for GRAIN, such as:
1. This wood has a beautiful natural grain.
2. The little bird is eating a grain of rice.
3. Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly.
4. Mas'r Legree, I ain't a grain afeard to die.
5. This machine crushes wheat grain to make flour.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of GRAIN
grain
 v.  paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
 n.  a relatively small granular particle of a substance
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  Even now the Southern ranks might be falling like grain before a hailstorm, but the Cause for which they fought could never fall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  At Christmas time Frank Kennedy and a small troop from the commissary department jogged up to Tara on a futile hunt for grain and animals for the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  Mrs. Elisha Gurrey, relict of Deacon Gurrey the dealer in hay and grain, was a pointed-nosed, simpering woman with iron-gray hair drawn so tight that it resembled a soiled handkerchief covering her head.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  One morning he told us that the small grain was coming on so well, he thought he would begin to cut his wheat on the first of July.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
5  He would need more men, and if it were agreeable to everyone he would engage Ambrosch for the reaping and threshing, as the Shimerdas had no small grain of their own.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
6  One night there was a beautiful electric storm, though not enough rain fell to damage the cut grain.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
7  He was a grain merchant and cattle-buyer, and was generally considered the most enterprising business man in our county.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
8  He controlled a line of grain elevators in the little towns along the railroad to the west of us, and was away from home a great deal.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
9  They ship so much grain, they have influence with the railroad people.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
10  She talked about the grain and the weather as if she'd never had another interest, and if I went over at night she always looked dead weary.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
11  Beyond the orchard Jurgis struck through a patch of woods, and then a field of winter grain, and came at last to another road.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  Of corn, we had many and plentiful feasts; for the grain, being in the milk is both sweet to the mouth and comfortable to the stomach.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
13  I stood as long as I could stagger to the hopper with grain.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  Mas'r Legree, I ain't a grain afeard to die.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  This wood has a beautiful natural grain.
2  They are dependent upon importation from foreign countries for cotton and grain.
3  If there be neither snow nor rain, then will be dear all sorts of grain.
4  In spite of the unfavorable weather,the grain output of the farm kept up and even increased a little than last year.
5  The little bird is eating a grain of rice.
6  Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly.
7  A buffer stock of grain was held in case of emergency shortages.
8  The grain store processed flour wrappers for Chinese dumplings.
9  That is a drop of grain sacks from an aircraft to the hungry people on the island.
10  Stores of grain are frequently attacked by pests, especially rats.
11  To take an obvious example, if there is a good harvest the price of grain will fall.
12  The company is an international trader in grain.
13  This machine crushes wheat grain to make flour.
14  The fine grain of pure tantalum can be obtained easily through PM.
15  Underhand work of that sort is against the grain with me.