How to Use grain elevator in a Sentence

grain elevator

noun

• Wheat, corn and soy would come and go along the train tracks that ran right to the grain elevator.
  — Desmond Butler, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• The price of wheat is not set at the grain elevator, it is set in the Chicago futures market.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• With the old grain elevator came 15 acres of Locust Point land.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2023
• The Pioneer name soared to new heights 20 years later with a then state-of-the-art grain elevator.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Sep. 2021
• The first grain elevator on the site, made of wood, burned to the ground, so a replacement was erected, also out of wood, which also burned down.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2021
• Beyond the privacy fence was a trailer park and a row of gray silos at the grain elevator.
  — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• At dinner one night, Lisa Schemm pulled out her phone to check the latest price at her local grain elevator, in Sharon Springs.
  — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• The next morning, David used a semi truck to deliver the wheat that Lisa had harvested to the grain elevator in Sharon Springs.
  — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• Her husband worked at a grain elevator across the river.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 20 May 2022
• Not long after, D.W. Rapp hopped off the train at Bargersville and decided to open a grain elevator.
  — Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2019
• Put it in a bag and take it to your local grain elevator or extension office.
  — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2019
• The silence was broken only by a vintage pickup truck pulling up to the Downs grain elevator, huge mounds of excess grain piled high on the ground all around it.
  — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 1 May 2018
• One large grain elevator can still be seen today when driving down Main Street in downtown Frisco.
  — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2020
• On one occasion, according to court records, Clouse chased Torres through a grain elevator and used a Taser on him.
  — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
• My new favorite view, drink and food venue is in a historic grain elevator on the Mississippi on the southern edge of downtown St. Paul.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
• The nursing homes in Ainsworth and Minden had already closed, and the one located next to a grain elevator in Callaway was running a waiting list.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2019
• The town currently has an old house, old truck, grain elevator and two residents.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• Haidai accused Russia of attacking a grain elevator tons of grain in Rubizhne, a city in Luhansk, in April.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
• Farmers truck their wheat to 27 inland grain elevators for loading onto barges headed to the Pacific Ocean and then to Asia.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
• Frisco was home to many farmers, who built several cotton gins and grain elevators.
  — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2020
• Court documents show that Hanson contracted with farmers and grain elevators last year to buy crops and either failed to pay them or sent them checks that bounced.
  — Dave Kolpack, Twin Cities, 18 June 2019
• His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2021
• In a town like that, in the business that my grandparents started was the grain elevator business, and the grain elevator business, farmers bring you grain.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• Ryder typifies many farm towns in the Upper Midwest, with a grain elevator, a cafe and a tavern, as well as a business that provides workers for oil and gas rigs.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2017
• Pallets of water were delivered to NorthStar Saloon a few blocks from the grain elevator.
  — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
• But dozens didn’t turn to thousands until his work as a grain elevator repairman landed him in Germany, which has been the hub of handmade marbles for hundreds of years.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Long abandoned, the land features an old grain elevator, a gravel parking lot and an emergency shelter for the homeless.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• In a normal year, farmers haul the prior year’s crop to grain elevators and to buyers throughout the winter, spring and summer to make room in their storage bins for corn, soybeans and other crops planted in the spring.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• In the countryside, the fiber optic goes to antennas on water towers and grain elevators, which send a high-speed wireless signal out to customers like Mr. Rieke.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
• The book demonstrates this clever transition from the days of Baltimore as a city of railroads, marine installations and grain elevators to today.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024