How to Use breadbasket in a Sentence

breadbasket

noun

• The area is becoming the nation's breadbasket.
• The breadbasket doesn't need me around to overflow with abundance.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 14 Oct. 2021
• White settlers later made the area a breadbasket of fruit, wheat and cattle.
  — Kirk Johnson, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• The arid climate, cool evenings, and fertile soil once made this region a breadbasket.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024
• For decades, it’s been referred to as the breadbasket of Europe.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 6 May 2022
• Then as now, Ukraine was a breadbasket, and the loss of Ukrainian wheat caused grain prices to soar.
  — Nicholas A. Lambert, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Russia, produced the flour for matzoh.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• End the day further north in Paonia, a region that’s a bit of a breadbasket and a wine bucket.
  — Ryan Haase, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• Farming in Syria goes back many thousands of years and the nation was long a breadbasket for the area.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
• The arid Persian Gulf is hardly the world’s breadbasket.
  — Agnieszka De Sousa, Bloomberg, 24 Apr. 2026
• The state became the breadbasket of the nation with the bountiful wheat produced.
  — Fred Keller, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2017
• The war has impeded exports from one of the world’s most important breadbaskets.
  — Jamey Keaten, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
• Farmers in Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, have run out of fuel.
  — Suriya Jayanti, Time, 15 Mar. 2022
• But suddenly at 34, cutting the breadbasket didn't, well, cut it.
  — Nicole Catanese, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Apr. 2014
• Now, a drought across America’s breadbasket is a threat to further relief.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 30 June 2023
• The prediction for more persistent droughts in the breadbasket states is severe.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Hokkaido has long been Japan’s breadbasket.
  — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2025
• Could the south succeed without the agricultural breadbasket of the north?
  — Uzodinma Iweala, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
• Ukraine, sometimes known as the breadbasket of Europe, is a major producer of the crops.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• The deal allows Ukraine, one of the world's key breadbaskets, to export grain from three of its Black Sea ports.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world’s breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2022
• The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world's breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon.
  — Aya Batrawy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• There’s trade all over the place, and the potential for multi-breadbasket failure is increasing.
  — NBC News, 8 Aug. 2019
• The first deep ball was textbook, stepping up in the pocket and delivered in the breadbasket just as pressure arrived.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• War in Ukraine – a major breadbasket thanks to its highly fertile black soil – has the global food system reeling.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2022
• The pain will be intense for some of the world's poorest nations that rely on Ukraine and Russia as their breadbasket.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2022
• Taste the bounty of the winter breadbasket with the freshest farm-to-table experiences in the peak of winter.
  — The Palm Beaches, Bon Appetit, 6 Dec. 2017
• Wheat prices have risen to record highs since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which produces so much grain that it’s known as the world’s breadbasket.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• Mindanao was the Philippines’ breadbasket, and its land was rich in gold, copper, and other mineral treasures.
  — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• Ukraine is also the breadbasket of Europe and Africa — when Russia is not shelling its remaining ports.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2025