How to Use rapeseed in a Sentence

rapeseed

noun

• For the most part, the view was green in all directions, dotted with rapeseed fields and forests home to wild boars.
  — Zoey Poll, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
• The farmers grow rapeseed, flaxseed, barley and wheat there now.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The wax is a blend of soy, bee and rapeseed, all of which is 100 percent natural and paraffin-free.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• Minimum prices for maize and rapeseed were scrapped in 2015.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• But the latest update to the map will be a small one: a new signpost in a German rapeseed field, now the heart of the European Union.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2017
• Most of the wheat, maize (corn), barley, rapeseed and dry peas that are grown are exported while potatoes, oats and rye are not.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• The long, empty platform of the TGV station in eastern France offers a vista of rapeseed fields stretching out as far as the eye can see.
  — Bloomberg.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Firmer prices for palm, soy, sunflower and rapeseed oils led to a 9.6% increase in the FAO vegetable price index.
  — Walé Azeez, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
• Neat brick houses with flowering acacias out front are set among rolling fields of rapeseed and wheat.
  — Tibor Krausz, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2017
• Farm fields stretch out to the horizons, in brilliant, yellow blossoming rapeseed or tilled black earth.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 7 May 2022
• The producer farms about 1 million acres of grain, including wheat, corn and rapeseed, in Ukraine and makes sunflower oil.
  — Bloomberg.com, 11 Mar. 2022
• Since other heart-healthy oils, like soybean, hempseed, extra virgin olive oil or rapeseed, a.k.a.
  — Jaclyn London, Ms, Rd, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2017
• High levels of erucic acid are observed in rapeseed oil, and although canola and rapeseed are cousins, canola is bred to have extremely low levels of the stuff.
  — Ian Burke, Saveur, 10 Oct. 2018
• Vines were the worst hit, but almond and fruit trees were also affected, as well as some other crops, including beets and rapeseed.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• More than 9 million tons of corn, wheat, sunflower products, barley, rapeseed and soya have been exported since the deal was made.
  — Hyder Abbasi, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2022
• After adding the beer and rapeseed waste into soil along with fresh cow manure, the researchers saw a major improvement in root health from just a single treatment.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• Pressed from the rapeseed plant, canola oil is similar to vegetable oil in flavor, color, smoke point, and usage qualities.
  — Rochelle Bilow, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
• While the fat from peanuts, soybeans, rapeseeds and sunflower seeds does a fine job of frying potatoes, something about the molten flesh of Donald and Daisy renders them irresistible.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• Fields of green, cattle grazing and sheep lazily milling about, and vast, shockingly bright swaths of yellow rapeseed flowers marked the countryside.
  — Lucas Peterson, New York Times, 26 July 2017
• Palm oil also has a much higher yield per acre than alternatives -- up to ten times more than rapeseed, soybean, olive and sunflower oils.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• Under the deal, the bloc would basically accept the national bans on four of the five main products — wheat, maize, rapeseed, and sunflower seeds — that account for most imports.
  — Raf Casert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• The nearby Black Sea serves as a major conduit for international grain shipments and Ukraine is also among the top exporters of barley, corn and rapeseed.
  — Will Horner, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• Compared with soy or rapeseed, harvesting palm fruit requires 25 times more workers.
  — Eko Listiyorini, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2020
• The researchers found similar results for other crops including maize, rapeseed, wheat and rice.
  — Carolyln Wilke, sacbee.com, 30 June 2017
• Ukraine is also a major world producer and exporter of other crops such as barley, corn, sunflower, and rapeseed.
  — Michael Slattery, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2022
• Even rapeseed was toxic until crop breeders transformed it into canola.
  — Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
• Olive oil is most often mixed with cheaper oils made from soybeans, corn, hazelnuts, or rapeseed, which can be dangerous for people with allergies.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2012
• For their experiment, researchers planted fields of rapeseed, which is made into cooking oil.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
• In 2021, the Russian Federation or Ukraine, or both, were ranked among the top three global exporters of wheat, barley, maize, rapeseed, rapeseed oil, sunflower seed and sunflower oil.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• That’s important because soybean and palm oil — and, in Europe, rapeseed — are close substitutes for each other, and changes in one market tend to ripple through all three commodities.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024