How to Use cottonseed in a Sentence

cottonseed

noun

• The two took long drives in his 18-wheel truck, hauling cottonseed, listening to 8-track cassettes of Merle Haggard and George Jones.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017
• And so cottonseed could be a solution — if only people could eat it.
  — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
• About a decade ago, his team made headlines for removing a toxin from cottonseed and making the seed a valid, high-protein animal feed.
  — Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 5 July 2018
• So, canola oil, soybean oil, corn oil and olive oil (among others like sunflower, safflower, cottonseed and nut/peanut/seed oils) are recommended.
  — Environmental Nutrition, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Roundup-resistant Palmer amaranth populations quickly spread through the South, then moved north, hidden at times in cottonseed hulls used for animal feed.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• A nutritionist optimizes the cows’ diet with cottonseed from Greece, sugar beet pellets from the Netherlands and locally grown alfalfa.
  — Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2016
• Organic fertilizers such as manure tea, fish emulsion, bloodmeal and cottonseed meal can be applied.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 28 July 2017
• In the past several years, two battered cottonseed silos in Waco, Texas, surrounded by food trucks selling sweet tea and energy balls, have become a pilgrimage site for Christian homemakers from around the country, among others.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 25 July 2021
• These include the company’s soybean and cottonseed businesses as well as its glufosinate weedkiller, which is a direct competitor to Roundup, a central element of Monsanto’s business.
  — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
• To increase the availability of other types of animal feed, China’s customs authority removed inspection requirements on a variety of agricultural byproducts, including peanut meal, cottonseed meal and rapeseed meal.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• To increase the availability of other types of animal feed, China’s customs authority removed inspection requirements on a variety of agricultural byproducts, including peanut meal, cottonseed meal, and rapeseed meal.
  — Raymond Zhong, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2018
• That’s 50 million tons of cottonseed annually, the International Cotton Advisory Committee reports.
  — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018

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