How to Use maize in a Sentence

maize

noun

• One piece of news that could faze the maize and blue?
  — Christian Romo, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• He was paid well and ate meals of meat, rice, and ugali, a maize dish.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• If there are heavy rains, the maize will fail but the pulses will thrive.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• That meant splitting tiny portions of maize or fish or fruit.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• Brown, fifty-five, was wearing a shiny maize blouse, jeans, and a black face mask.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Fields once filled with maize, beans and potatoes were empty.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• Or deck their basements in scarlet and gray or maize and blue or green and white.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019
• About 40% of the land now used to grow maize would no longer be suitable for it.
  — The Economist, 26 Mar. 2020
• Rigu grew up the son of peasants in a maize farm north of Nairobi.
  — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian, 12 Feb. 2018
• But working the land to grow food crops such as rice, peanuts, and maize means clearing trees.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Animals, 14 Dec. 2020
• Fishermen on the coasts had pawned their nets for money to buy maize.
  — Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
• Our warm-up was a 30-minute walk through flat maize fields to the park’s entrance.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Her husband, Michael, had gone with a blue tee and a maize hoodie.
  — Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2022
• Wheat, rice and maize are likely the grasses with the highest biomass in the world.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022
• Ben VanSumeren is trading maize and blue for green and white.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2021
• Every room in her house is piled high with bags of maize (corn) meal, tins of pilchards and bottles of cold drinks.
  — Linda Nordling, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2020
• The maize maze is open now for the season, according to the farm’s website.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Soon, the only color shirt Moody will be concerned with will be maize-and-blue.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 7 Feb. 2018
• Millets, including sorghum, now take up over two hectares of her land – a patch where maize was once the crop of choice.
  — Farai Mutsaka and Jamey Keaten, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2023
• The all-maize (more neon-ish, but that's OK) uniforms were met with mixed reviews.
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
• His fresh black corn tostadas are made with maize from Michoacán, passed through a grinder instead of a molino.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
• According to the team, the maize lettering will remain the same.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2018
• About half of the human genome is made up of transposons; in some maize plants, that figure climbs to about 90%.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
• Lendeborg today feels like an overnight sensation, bursting on the scene in his maize-and-blue out of nowhere.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
• Underwood wasn’t the only one in maize and blue to have an impressive debut.
  — Larry Lage, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
• When The Masked Singer returns for its eighth season, things are sure to be a-maize-ing.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• Motzko said rankings are of little importance anytime his team faces a foe wearing maize and blue.
  — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2026
• Swap out the Wolverine maize and blue for the Sooner Crimson and cream.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Three people in Haiti have been killed as a result of the storm, which wiped out nearly 40 acres of maize.
  — Solcyré Burga, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
• The largest drops have been for maize, a staple in parts of Africa and Latin America.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020