Sample Sentences for
bushel
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    Our farm produced over 10,000 bushels of wheat last year.
    bushels = a unit of measure used for dry goods (filling an 8 gallon container)
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    He charges some folks a bushel of potatoes for delivery of a baby.  (source)
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    "We could eat a bushel!" she exclaimed, jingling a handful of coins.  (source)
    bushel = a large amount (an exaggeration since a bushel is an 8 gallon container)
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    Looking at it one way, each American eats only about a bushel of corn per year.  (source)
    bushel = a unit of measure used for dry goods (filling an 8 gallon container)
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    Every summer Miss Katherine would pick bushels of peaches and preserve them in jars with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and other spices which she kept secret.  (source)
    bushels = a lot (8 gallon containers)
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    Lucy hides the lemon shoes and the red shoes and the shoes that used to be white but are now pale blue under a powerful bushel basket on the back porch, until one Tuesday her mother, who is very clean, throws them away.  (source)
    bushel = capable of holding a lot (officially 8 gallons)
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    Later that afternoon they would still have to sort a few bushels of plums.†  (source)
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    'Animal Hero, Second Class,' and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice.  (source)
    bushel = a unit of measure used for dry goods (filling an 8 gallon container)
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    Old Man LaGrisaille had left her two bushels of ripe corn.†  (source)
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    When they began feeding again Kotick saw that their upper lip was split into two pieces that they could twitch apart about a foot and bring together again with a whole bushel of seaweed between the splits.  (source)
    bushel = large amount
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    We sail most of the distance upriver, squashed between bushels of wheat on the barge of a benevolent farmer Gisa befriended years ago.†  (source)
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    We pulled the wild onions from the ground and just a handful would carry more flavor than a bushel of tame onions.  (source)
    bushel = a large amount (filling an 8 gallon container)
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    We walked through the strawberry fields, where campers were picking bushels of berries while a satyr played a tune on a reed pipe.†  (source)
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