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 problems are much more to agriculture and sea rise.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 Apr. 2018
• But even groups with nothing to do with agriculture kicked in.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2023
• That appeals to me as a dairy farmer and woman in agriculture.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2021
• Ehrlich and the Paddocks were wrong about the future of agriculture.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• Men and women who had worked in agriculture were now serving in the armed forces.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2020
• The threat to agriculture comes as the Philippines tries to cope with rice shortages.
  — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
• Some water is used in the city, but much of it goes to supply agriculture.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Indian agriculture has been in a state of crisis for the past two decades or more.
  — Surinder S. Jodhka, Quartz, 3 June 2021
• That suggests to me a need to transform our food and agriculture system.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• This is the model to scale up net zero coffee agriculture.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• But take the issue of flooding for agriculture and for soils in general.
  — Thomas Krumenacker, Scientific American, 9 June 2023
• Bronaugh would bring a career in various areas of agriculture to the job.
  — Ellyn Ferguson Cq-Roll Call, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• The less water that goes toward agriculture, the more that's left over for drinking.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 24 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Women have always been on the forefront of agriculture.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 2018
• The approaching famine is not only a fluke of bad weather or poor agriculture.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 12 Jan. 2022
• Their diet is based on a mix of agriculture, agroforestry and home gardens.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• So that means everything from airplanes to agriculture is on the chopping block.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2018
• From industry to air travel to agriculture, some things look like a very heavy lift.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
• There’s tons of agriculture in the area, but most restaurants don’t use local stuff.
  — Anna Aguillard, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2016
• Farmers and the government do not agree on how far to go in opening agriculture markets.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• Gaudin says present day agriculture is rough on bees, and has become a caretaker for them.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 11 Apr. 2018
• 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
• One stated goal is to reach net-zero emissions in the agriculture sector.
  — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2020
• Much of this region is privately owned and used for agriculture and duck hunting.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024