How to Use soybean in a Sentence

soybean

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  • 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
  • There is a new king of soybeans on the American farm—for now.
    — Patrick Thomas, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Despite the labels, many are mixed with corn and soybean.
    — Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Brazil is the No. 1 soybean and the No. 2 corn exporter globally.
    — Elizabeth Elkin, Bloomberg.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sweet and gingery if a little gloopy, with soybean halves floating around to keep you on your toes.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Corn, wheat, and soybean yields would all decline by more than 11 percent over five years.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Tim Steier was among those who took his combine to Legried’s farm to harvest a section of his soybean field.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The street, about the length of a high school track, separates a vast Walmart parking lot from a field of soybean stubble.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Cattle and soybeans are farmed on the surrounding land, and catfish are raised in the nearby lakes.
    — Meridith Edwards, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, officers went to his home — a small white house near corn and soybean fields.
    — NBC News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Tons of wheat, barley, corn, rye and soybeans arrived by train hopper car and left by ship.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Decatur is scarred by train tracks and surrounded by corn and soybean fields.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2022
  • In the middle of the state’s vast expanses of corn and soybean fields, a new plant factory is taking shape.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The vessels are used to transport commodities like iron ore and soybeans.
    — Michael Forsythe, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Wheat is considered one of the nine major food allergens by the FDA, along with foods like peanuts, eggs, and soybeans.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 5 July 2023
  • The agtech firm, founded in 2012, deploys AI to breed high-protein, high-yield soybeans and yellow peas.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • That can be as simple as a tractor or combine that drives itself along a field of corn or wheat or soybeans.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
  • But Greenville is flat and landlocked, its miles of soybean fields crossed with strip malls and industrial parks.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The generally rosy scenario has been helped by strong harvests of corn and soybeans elsewhere in the world.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The crops in question are soybean plants, which are mostly grown to feed animals such as chickens and pigs.
    — Matt Whittaker, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • It’s made from the whole soybean (rather than an extract) and is considered a complete protein.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2022
  • It was topped with chewy, syrupy balls of mochi the size of grapes, earthy roasted soybean powder, and a deep dark pool of Okinawan black sugar syrup.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 13 Sep. 2023

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