How to Use alfalfa in a Sentence

alfalfa

noun

• The captain decided to put the plane down in the alfalfa patch.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2017
• Some exceptions include fruits and nuts that grow on trees, berries, and grasses like clover and some alfalfa.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
• Other common sprouts are alfalfa sprouts and broccoli sprouts .
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
• Plants that sustain leaf and stem system injury include chrysanthemums, onions, rye, and alfalfa.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 1 Mar. 2017
• Surrounding the city and sprinkled among its tidy tract neighborhoods, potatoes, alfalfa, sugar beets and corn grow in fields.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• Sunflowers, some already in bloom, dotted the landscape, along with wild alfalfa, grasses and other plants.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 27 June 2017
• Fertilize every six weeks by scratching a mixture of alfalfa meal and organic flower food into the soil around the root zone.
  — Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
• The ranch is set up like a wagon wheel, with the Bundy home at the center surrounded by irrigated fields of alfalfa and melons.
  — Trevor Aaronson, The Intercept, 16 May 2017
• So, farm cooperatives like Land O’ Lakes and Cenex owe much to alfalfa.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2017
• Bumblebees also help pollinate many crops such as blueberries and alfalfa.
  — Carolyn Wilke, sacbee, 20 Aug. 2017
• With irrigation, the black dirt was splendid for growing crops, from potatoes to alfalfa, that in turn fed the dairy cows that grew up in what became known as the Magic Valley.
  — Kirk Johnson, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2017
• This was all once desert, but irrigation has turned it into a breadbasket producing vegetables like potatoes and spinach and onions, as well as alfalfa, Bermuda grass and hay.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2017
• The 14-year-old Kibibbi will enjoy extra attention today in the form of face scratches, belly rubs and some of her favorite treats like apples and alfalfa cubes.
  — John Pana, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• In addition to growing alfalfa, Bishop, 63, is an amateur bird watcher.
  — Gordon Dickson, star-telegram.com, 24 May 2017
• In the past, Mills, who grows corn, soybean and alfalfa on his 3,810-acre farm in Ansley, Neb., would have fixed his machinery himself.
  — Alex Fitzpatrick, Time, 22 June 2017
• In the last year, though, alfalfa prices reached record highs.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• The deer was in an alfalfa field and the caller was a passerby.
  — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2019
• The price of alfalfa had doubled — putting it out of reach for many.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• The body is placed in a vessel along with wood chips, alfalfa, and straw.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
• This was a big fat deer that had been into the alfalfa.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 Dec. 2020
• The water to grow his corn and alfalfa fields comes from Lake Mead.
  — CBS News, 9 June 2021
• The captain decided to put the plane down in the alfalfa patch.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2021
• Shetland ponies stroll the grounds, wild ducks bob on the ponds and in the quiet mornings, elk come to graze the alfalfa.
  — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2018
• To play it safe, ask for your sandwich with no alfalfa sprouts, and for the bean sprouts to be left off your pad Thai.
  — Rachel Meltzer Warren, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Layers of straw, alfalfa and wood chips are placed above and below the body.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2022
• Much of the acreage has been used for years to grow corn, wheat, potatoes, alfalfa and other crops.
  — Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 4 May 2018
• In the process, dairy cows were replaced by cotton and alfalfa.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• Armyworms are a threat to crops such as alfalfa and soybeans, as well as grass.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2021
• About 56 tons of livestock bedding and manure had been spread atop Mark Zinke’s frozen alfalfa field.
  — Bennet Goldstein, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
• Those growing alfalfa or two other types of hay — Bermuda grass or klein grass — are eligible.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024