6 sentences with 'staple'
Example sentences and phrases with the word staple and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »