How to Use granary in a Sentence

granary

noun
  • The woodpeckers have learned that the granary tree is the best way to do this.
    Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • After that, the city built a granary on top of the Jewish cemetery.
    Shai Carmi and David Reich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Masten stored these finds on the floor of his granary for public viewing.
    Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2020
  • That, in turn, will drive up demand and prices for shipping, and reduce what granaries pay for crops.
    USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Near their pitch is an ancient granary that climbers can’t visit.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Your camp is on a sandy beach near Nankoweap Rapids, overlooked by a set of 900-year-old Ancestral Puebloan granaries.
    Robert Earle Howells, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Cats, for instance, would keep rodents away from granaries.
    Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
  • The Latter-day Saint congregation met first in a schoolhouse, Amott said, and then on the upper floor of a granary before the church was built around 1900.
    Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
  • In 2013, the granary was converted into a parking garage.
    Shai Carmi and David Reich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • There the researchers found what appeared to be a granary, a beehive or globular-shaped hole in the ground typically built to store grain or corn.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The property also has a barn, summer kitchen, granary, buggy house, blacksmith shop and outhouse.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2017
  • The Food Corporation of India’s granaries, in which the government stocks food grains for use during calamities, have been overflowing for most of last year.
    Aarefa Johari, Quartz India, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Known as China’s granary, the three northeasternmost provinces – Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning – produce more than one fifth of the country’s grain output, thanks to the region’s fertile black earth.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
  • What sort of public action might effectively mimic a reserve or a granary to solve this conundrum?
    Robert Hockett, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • They are known as granary trees and represent a unique characteristic of acorn woodpeckers.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Follow the mud-brown river past Louisiana’s chemical plants, oil refineries, granaries, ports, and the rail networks and highways that spring from its fingers.
    Katia Dmitrieva, Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2018
  • Circle back to the center through narrow lanes and past ancient granaries, ramparts and historic fortifications (one now famous as a leaning tower).
    Hugh Biggar, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Last year, stymied barge traffic meant nearby granaries filled up, leaving some farmers scrambling for more expensive or distant storage options.
    USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • For some Argentine agricultural experts, the rise in global food insecurity and tightening food supplies risks turning the country away from its roots as a great granary to the world.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2022
  • The amount of taxes owed was often linked to agriculture, with a certain percentage of a field’s harvest earmarked for state-run granaries or administrative storage centers.
    Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • One of Nordic Farms’ two primary barns had been converted into a granary before the debut of Earthkeep, becoming a grain co-op that supported grain milling, flaking, roasting, smoking and blending.
    Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Russian forces struck granaries in Odessa on Friday, the fourth consecutive day of attacks on Ukrainian ports and agricultural facilities.
    Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • Mao Zedong commanded a 1958 war on the vermin afflicting Chinese granaries, encouraging the extermination, over a two-day period, of all fleas, flies, rats and sparrows.
    Raj Patel, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • China’s granary Numerous villages and large areas of farmland were also flooded in the city of Wuchang, another major rice producing city in Heilongjiang, and authorities there are still counting the damage.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Julien grew up in Indiana, where his father operated several granaries.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • In a frenzy of competitive energy, the city’s guilds lavished attention on its unfinished cathedral, its neighboring baptistery and the former granary-turned-church of Orsanmichele.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • Enlarge / Food security in developing nations is particularly affected by animal species like the red flour beetle which has specialized in surviving in extremely dry environments, granaries included, for thousands of years.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Russia’s intensifying attacks on Ukraine’s granaries and other agricultural infrastructure reflect their increasing inability to make effective attacks on proper military targets, according to U.S. and European officials.
    Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 4 Aug. 2023

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