6 sentences with “staple”

Soybeans have been a staple food in the East for thousands of years.

Many nutritious staple crops such as wheat and barley grew naturally in the region.

American plantation owners, looking for a successful staple crop to compete in the world market, found it in cotton.

The transition in the Upper South to the staple crop of wheat, which did not require large numbers of slaves to produce, also spurred manumissions.

Dr. Haastrup knows that the main cause of the girl's poor health is ignorance. She has been living on millet porridge, a staple food of the local people, which is rich in carbohydrates but poor in protein and vitamins.

It should be noted that in this period, especially in the early 1950s, anti-Semitism became a staple of the trials and purges, and latent anti-Semitic sentiments also surfaced and Jewish communist leaders suffered a disproportionate number of arrests and executions, often accused of being secretly "Zionist" in league with the West.