How to Use agriculture in a Sentence

agriculture

noun

• They cleared the land to use it for agriculture.
• Great wine is tied to finite pieces of land and to the rhythms of agriculture.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• Mayo has deep roots of her own in food and agriculture.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• The threat to agriculture comes as the Philippines tries to cope with rice shortages.
  — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
• Ehrlich and the Paddocks were wrong about the future of agriculture.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The problems are much more to agriculture and sea rise.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 Apr. 2018
• In the basin as a whole, agriculture uses 80% of the river’s water.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 June 2022
• Some water is used in the city, but much of it goes to supply agriculture.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• What worked for pharma should work for agriculture, too, the CEO says.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 26 June 2020
• But even groups with nothing to do with agriculture kicked in.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2023
• Men and women who had worked in agriculture were now serving in the armed forces.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2020
• That appeals to me as a dairy farmer and woman in agriculture.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2021
• You guys get it … agriculture is the backbone of this nation.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
• The rainfall also had a big impact for much of the agriculture industry in the south.
  — Jim Foerster, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• There’s tons of agriculture in the area, but most restaurants don’t use local stuff.
  — Anna Aguillard, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2016
• Indian agriculture has been in a state of crisis for the past two decades or more.
  — Surinder S. Jodhka, Quartz, 3 June 2021
• The less water that goes toward agriculture, the more that's left over for drinking.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 24 Mar. 2023
• That suggests to me a need to transform our food and agriculture system.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• There were schools, livestock, agriculture, dozens of wives, even more kids.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
• Many of the town’s 8,000 residents work in agriculture.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Though agriculture is a big problem, that doesn’t mean industry doesn’t share in the blame.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Mar. 2022
• Water that falls as rain is much harder to capture and bend to the slow-release needs of agriculture.
  — Tom Philpott, Wired, 29 Aug. 2020
• These pollutants come not just from today’s agriculture, but from the dairy farms and citrus groves of the past.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
• Then one day last month, while at an agriculture meeting in Danville, Ahmad got a phone call.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 4 May 2023
• With the land zoned for agriculture, the building permit describes the site as a storage warehouse.
  — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• In all, 70 percent of its resources are used for agriculture.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• The area's main growing season is from the fall through the spring, but agriculture work takes place there year-round, Guernsey de Zapien said.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2023
• The home, which was built in the 1940s, had been vacant for years, but the land had previously been used for agriculture and as pasture for cows.
  — Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• From industry to air travel to agriculture, some things look like a very heavy lift.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
• IndyStar has written a lot about what agriculture looks like in the state in recent years.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 May 2024