How to Use maize in a Sentence

maize

noun

• Will Sam and Tim be wearing maize and blue for the episode?
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2018
• If there are heavy rains, the maize will fail but the pulses will thrive.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• About 40% of the land now used to grow maize would no longer be suitable for it.
  — The Economist, 26 Mar. 2020
• No longer will shorts and a maize and blue t-shirt suffice.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 20 July 2022
• Our warm-up was a 30-minute walk through flat maize fields to the park’s entrance.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Wheat, rice and maize are likely the grasses with the highest biomass in the world.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022
• Rigu grew up the son of peasants in a maize farm north of Nairobi.
  — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian, 12 Feb. 2018
• Not in front of the Rose queen, the royal court and all of the maize and blue Teslas in Arroyo Seco.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Brown, fifty-five, was wearing a shiny maize blouse, jeans, and a black face mask.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Swap out the Wolverine maize and blue for the Sooner Crimson and cream.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• But many Africans love maize, and tastes change slowly.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• When The Masked Singer returns for its eighth season, things are sure to be a-maize-ing.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• Her husband, Michael, had gone with a blue tee and a maize hoodie.
  — Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2022
• The maize maze is open now for the season, according to the farm’s website.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• The largest drops have been for maize, a staple in parts of Africa and Latin America.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• Or deck their basements in scarlet and gray or maize and blue or green and white.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019
• But working the land to grow food crops such as rice, peanuts, and maize means clearing trees.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Animals, 14 Dec. 2020
• Ben VanSumeren is trading maize and blue for green and white.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2021
• The all-maize (more neon-ish, but that's OK) uniforms were met with mixed reviews.
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
• And how much Gattis has revamped the maize-and-blue attack.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2019
• About half of the human genome is made up of transposons; in some maize plants, that figure climbs to about 90%.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
• That meant splitting tiny portions of maize or fish or fruit.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• And his irritant style, while charming in the maize and blue, is one of his calling cards now in the NBA.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2022
• Every room in her house is piled high with bags of maize (corn) meal, tins of pilchards and bottles of cold drinks.
  — Linda Nordling, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2020
• Fields once filled with maize, beans and potatoes were empty.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• Soon, the only color shirt Moody will be concerned with will be maize-and-blue.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 7 Feb. 2018
• The maize-and-blue clad fans were left groaning for much of the night because O'Korn simply struggled.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2017
• Corn, or maize, was first grown in the Americas at least 8,000 years ago.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• There’s vegan custard in cups and creamy custard sandwiched between macarons with flecks of maize and blue.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2024
• Flour is a fine powder made from grinding down grains, typically wheat, but can be made from any dry grain including maize, rice, barley, rye, and oats.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024