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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    The first section was rather what Reynie would have expected — one or two questions regarding octagons and hexagons, another devoted to bushels of this and kilograms of that, and another that required calculating how much time must pass before two speeding trains collided.†  (source)
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