How to Use millet in a Sentence

millet

noun

• Try a mix of white rice, millet, and/or quinoa, which all cook in about the same time.
  — Carey Polis, Bon Appetit, 4 Jan. 2018
• Tiny and bead-shaped, quinoa is about the size of millet or couscous.
  — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2017
• Stay away from bags filled with the white seeds (millet), which is for ground feeders.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
• This came at the expense of crops like millet, sugar (cane and beet), rice, and wheat.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2017
• As in Syria, the medium was kabab, but here the ground meat was mixed with millet, then fried.
  — Anissa Helou, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2018
• Taro and millet have got scarce, and since there’s hardly any rice left the gruel is thin.
  — Hiromi Kawakami, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2024
• White millet seed can be spread on the ground to attract ground-feeding birds.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• Small grains like bulgur, quinoa, and millet can be ready in 10 to 20 minutes.
  — Lisa Zwirn, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2022
• The changes also expand access to whole grains like quinoa, wild rice and millet and to foods such as teff and whole wheat naan.
  — CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
• The recipe calls for millet and barley, as well as yam, lily root, and traces of Job's tears, a type of grass native to Southeast Asia.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2017
• Chick-fil-A said Monday that the bun is made with a mix of ancient grains like millet, quinoa, sorghum, amaranth and teff.
  — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
• With less cooking liquid, millet can be fluffy and light like rice or quinoa.
  — Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
• The first home along the highway, a hut made of gray, rotting millet stalks, belongs to Hadiza Mani, a 60-year-old widow.
  — Dionne Searcey, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
• Bring to a simmer and whisk in reserved millet; season with salt.
  — Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2017
• The Big 16 is a tasty high-fiber bread with 16 seeds and grains, including oat flakes, sunflower seeds and millet.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 May 2017
• Sometimes someone will forget to give the birds more millet.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• The corn strain feeds on corn, sorghum and cotton while the rice strains eats rice, alfalfa and millet, as well as the pasture grasses and lawns.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• The vegetable salt called pot-ash or salt-ash was made in the Sahel-Sudan by burning the stalks or straws of millet and palms in a pot to ashes.
  — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
• Some blends combine protein from whole grains—like brown rice, buckwheat, millet, and seeds—and legumes.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 9 June 2024
• After that, over 270 million metric tons of barley, sorghum, millet, oats and rye help make up the rest.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2018
• Grains allowed on a gluten-free diet include corn, quinoa, rice, gluten-free flours, millet, and teff.
  — Rebecca Jaspan, Mph, Health, 24 Jan. 2024
• Oat, almond, tapioca, coconut, millet and quinoa flours are just a few of the go-tos for gluten-free bakers.
  — Michelle Khouri, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2017
• Eating more millet is not only good for the planet, but also good for you.
  — Maria Speck, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
• To recreate the funky farmhouse ale, the brewers sourced millet, barley, and indigenous wild yeast from the area.
  — Kate Springer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2018
• Cooks in the past did this to both pricey ingredients (rice!) and humbler ones (less-than-ideal cuts of meat and fish, wheat, millet).
  — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 21 Oct. 2019
• The millet grains puffed up and became crunchy in the hot oil, providing a crisp contrast to the soft meat; tahini and tamarind dipping sauces added a juicy touch.
  — Anissa Helou, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2018
• Even at midtown prices, that’s a lot of organic millet.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
• For this meatballs recipe, be sure to roll the meatballs firmly into the millet so that the tiny grains don’t fall off during frying.
  — Bon Appetit, 23 Apr. 2018
• German bread is composed mainly of whole grains, such as rye, spelt, millet, and wheat that are less processed.
  — Judy Buchenot, Aurora Beacon-News, 27 Apr. 2017
• Brown Rice Whole grains like brown rice, spelt, millet, and barley are rich in fiber and digest more slowly than refined grains.
  — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024