How to Use arabica in a Sentence

arabica

noun

• Overall, the commodity price for arabica coffee has jumped more than 40 percent since before the pandemic, climbing even further last year and dropping slightly this year.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Robusta prices have surged much faster this year than those for smoother-tasting arabica.
  — Will Horner, WSJ, 10 June 2023
• That would raise global supplies of mild arabica beans by about 13 percent.
  — Marcy Nicholson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
• The beans used here are imported directly from Vietnam and are a mixture of robusta and arabica beans.
  — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2019
• The tea and coffee collection features three new brews: a darjeeling tea, a pineapple and coconut tea, and an East African arabica coffee.
  — Town & Country, 12 Apr. 2023
• After plunging to a nearly two-year low, futures for arabica coffee have bounced back as the weather in South America threatens this year’s crop.
  — Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
• But, overall, global analyses have suggested the area where arabica could be cultivated would be cut in half by the middle of the century.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2017
• Coffea arabica is a picky plant, willing to grow only in the narrowest range of conditions: Sunlight, water, drainage, and even altitude all have to be just so.
  — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
• The goal is to develop varieties that taste like arabica but are more resilient, like other varieties.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• Arabica is the highest quality coffee bean, and Colombia is the world's top producer of mild arabica.
  — Marcy Nicholson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
• Dark-roasted whole beans, a blend of arabica and robusta, are now available to purchase separately.
  — Eleanore Park, WSJ, 20 June 2019
• Kenya accounts for just 1 percent of the global crop, but its high-quality arabica beans are sought-after for blending with other varieties.
  — Duncan Miriri, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2018
• The finest arabica beans from Colombia’s emerald hills were mostly exported, leaving domestic coffee lovers to drink the proverbial dregs.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
• That one more frivolous scolding about an innocuous activity could be averted is a small victory for reason, which amounts to more than a hill of arabica beans in this crazy world.
  — Josh Gohlke, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
• The coffee bean comes in two basic families, arabica and the inferior (though easier to grow) robusta.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
• Mokhtar imagines himself one of those adventurers, aiming first to revive Yemen’s 500-year-old coffee culture and then to export its high-quality arabica beans.
  — Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• Choose from a sweeter, fruity arabica blend or a bolder, nuttier robusta, along with filters and hand grinders to prepare coffee in the traditional Vietnamese fashion.
  — NBC News, 18 May 2020
• Leaf rust, a fungal disease that affects both arabica and robusta plants, is also devastating the industry.
  — Marvin G Perez, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Death Wish is billed as the world's strongest coffee, made from a blend of organic, fair-trade robusta and arabica beans primarily from India and Peru, which contain 200 percent more caffeine than the average coffee blend.
  — Kellie Hwang, azcentral, 26 Apr. 2018
• It's made from 100% arabica coffee, which is often considered the higher quality pick between the world's two most common coffees, arabica and robusta.
  — Rachel Baron, goodhousekeeping.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• Back-to-back hurricanes have battered arabica coffee fields in Honduras, while unpredictable changes in rainfall have devastated coffee farmers in Colombia.
  — Rebecca Tan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• The beverage, which uses caffeine from unroasted arabica beans, has since expanded to numerous flavors.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 10 May 2023
• Starbucks offers several drinks – including a latte, a shaken espresso and an iced cortado – made with arabica coffee and Partanna cold pressed, extra virgin olive oil – and customers can also buy the olive oil separately.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 June 2023
• While some coffee roasters add robusta to their highly secretive blends, premium brands are typically 100 percent mild arabica.
  — Marcy Nicholson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
• The sophisticated arabica is hypersensitive to fluctuations in temperatures and faces dim prospects in a warming world.
  — Nhung Nguyen, Washington Post, 15 May 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024