How to Use soybean in a Sentence

soybean

noun
  • Most of the revenue on the farm still comes from the corn and soybean crops.
    Karen Ann Cullotta, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The smell that hung in the air was a mixture of soybean paste, fish sauce, sesame oil.
    Angella Choe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The Midwest grows most of the nation’s corn and soybeans.
    Scott McFetridge, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Edamame Edamame is the name for immature soybeans still in the pod.
    Lauren Manaker, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Edamame Edamame, or young soybeans, are a type of legume, like beans, lentils, and peas.
    Johna Burdeos, Health, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The soybean crop is 16 days ahead of last year and eight days ahead of the average.
    Adam Belz, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • There’s the rolling hills, plus trees, a couple of ponds, and no corn or soybeans on site.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Edamame Edamame are young soybeans served boiled or steamed in their pods.
    Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Health, 13 Mar. 2025
  • There is a new king of soybeans on the American farm—for now.
    Patrick Thomas, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Legumes are a protein source that is in beans, lentils, peanuts, peas, and soybeans.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024
  • First, soybeans are soaked and ground with water, to make soy milk.
    Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Huy My, a rice and soybean farmer, was more than 60 years old himself.
    Megan Burrow and Nhung Nguyen, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In the past five years of corn and soybean futures prices, there were no instances of this kind of wild price move.
    M. Todd Henderson, WSJ, 15 June 2022
  • Made with yam root and soybean curd, the sturdy noodles are scored along one side to help grip the sauce.
    Eric Velasco, al, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Despite the labels, many are mixed with corn and soybean.
    Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Steel and lumber prices, as well as corn, cheese and soybean prices, have hit all-time highs, too.
    Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 20 May 2021
  • Pollen-rich plants will do well alongside soybeans and corn.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 25 Feb. 2019
  • Some of the soybeans are processed into oil for biodiesel but most end up as hog feed.
    Kirk Siegler, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Brazil is the No. 1 soybean and the No. 2 corn exporter globally.
    Elizabeth Elkin, Bloomberg.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • By the end of the century, corn and soybean yields could fall by 25 percent, the report found.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
  • The money will be used to purchase about 800 acres in Lonoke County for a row crop rice and soybean farm to lease, the trustees learned.
    Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And the hotter summers are crippling yields of soybeans and corn.
    Autumn Schoolman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The answer is a mix of soybean meal and non-sulfured molasses.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2020
  • A year later, the dispute is still raging and soybeans hit a 10-year-low.
    Scott McFetridge, The Seattle Times, 20 May 2019
  • Most tofu is made out of soybean milk that’s boiled, curdled, and then pressed.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2020
  • By contrast, just 11% of the state's corn and soybean crops are in very poor or poor condition.
    Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
  • Most of the drift damage has occurred in soybean crops, which are prominent in the east.
    The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Wheat and soybean futures have fallen about 15% this month, while corn has dropped 13%.
    Michael Hirtzer, Fortune, 27 June 2022
  • Hogs and chickens eat corn and soybean meal, which is more expensive because of the war in Ukraine.
    Dallas News, 20 June 2022
  • The corn and sugarcane fields of Punjab and Haryana had given way, by the second day, to fields of millet and soybean and lines of orange trees.
    Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025

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