How to Use cassava in a Sentence

cassava

noun

• The cassava plant is one of the most important food sources in the world.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
• When the fruit and the cassava ran out, the children ate seeds, the family said.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 June 2023
• The dancers, like young cassava shoots during monsoon, shaped their movement to the flow of the rhythm.
  — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
• Eat with a side of fried bammy—a chewy, flat bread made with cassava.
  — Ruth C. White, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2023
• In these countries, most of the calories come from carbs, from corn, cassava and rice.
  — Richard Schiffman, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2021
• Pour the milk mixture over the cassava flour and beat with a wooden spoon to combine.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Fields of peanuts, cassava, beans and corn have been abandoned.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2017
• For starters, cassava and tapioca flour aren’t the same thing — a fact that slipped my mind while filling the cart.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• This starch is extracted from the roots of cassava plants.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 8 Apr. 2024
• My grandma dips a spoonful of brown beans into a bowl of the cold, thick porridge made from cassava and brings it to her lips.
  — Chisom Peter Job, Bon Appétit, 20 Aug. 2021
• Don't confuse this with cassava flour, which is more fibrous and made using the whole root.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 13 June 2022
• Firefighters rushed to extinguish the flames that engulfed the debris left where the jet hit the ground in a cassava field.
  — Andrea Rodriguez and Michael Weissenstein, USA TODAY, 19 May 2018
• Inside were sacks of cassava flour and rice as well as an ample supply of yams.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• The menu includes soupa konji, jollof rice, green fig dumplings, cassava pudding with rum caramel and more.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• My mom would sell cassava in the marketplace as a teenager.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 16 Aug. 2022
• Between her feet is a sack of green leaves from the shrubby cassava tree, which came in from Mozambique this morning.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• The cassava plant is best known for its yuca root (pronounced YOO-ka, and not to be confused with yucca).
  — Andrea E. McHugh, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• Longer term, the researchers are hoping to raise yields in staple foods like rice, cowpea and cassava.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The pearls are made from the starch of the cassava root, a tuber also known as yuca, native to South America.
  — oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2021
• Dargie passed chikwangue, a rubbery, bread-like cassava staple boiled and stored in big leaves, and cans of sardines.
  — National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2019
• There’s a spicy version of each and another made with cassava chips.
  — Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• Sometime in the past, other groups had moved south from what’s now Brazil; those groups brought Arawak languages and cassava farming with them.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022
• Turn the dough onto a surface dusted with cassava flour and knead until smooth.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava.
  — Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
• In some cases the cassava root is chewed by the tribeswomen and the juice spat into a bowl that is left to ferment into alcohol.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Meals consisted of sweet potato greens and the cassava mush known as fufu.
  — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• His first emoji was of Foutou, a staple Ivorian meal made from ground cassava flour and mashed plantains.
  — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
• That may push them to grow crops that aren’t susceptible, such as cassava and sweet potatoes.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• Kabocha flour has my heart, but now I’m inspired to play around with fonio, rice, cassava, and honeybean too.
  — Kyle Beechey, Bon Appétit, 15 May 2020
• That prompted some manufacturers to use other starches, such as the root cassava or sorghum, a gluten-free grain.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024