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How to use the word potato in a Sentence?

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There's a number of crops that are really struggling due to either lack of rainfall, like the potato crop here relies on rainfall, they don't usually take water from anywhere else to irrigate the fields. And even some of the other crops that do take water from from rivers, for example, to irrigate fields, they're really struggling at the moment, even in current conditions, yields are going to be down for a number of crops and the price of these things are going to go up, and obviously that's due to drought here in The UK. But there's other things going on across Europe.

Liz Bentley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As a parent, you don't know what you're picking up out of the produce bin, is it elevated because of the cultivar -- the particular type of sweet potato or carrot ? Or is it elevated because it's grown in an area where the soil has naturally high levels of lead ? Answering these questions will be the responsibility of government regulators and industry, Houlihan said. The FDA has a Closer to Zero campaign, for example, which could take on the issue.CNN has reached out to The FDA for comment but hasn't yet received a response.

Jane Houlihan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I made myself into somebody who had just jumped off the potato truck. I rubbed soap into my eyes to make them red, I had stubble on my face, the hair wasn’t really combed well, dirty T-shirt, two weeks later, I got the Social Security card in the mail, and I was allowed to actually legally work in the United States.

Jack Philip Barsky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I am a bake potato bake potato bake potatoooo

Caleb Logan LeBlanc

added by 2027macoy.ella
2 years ago

I am a bake potato bake potato bake potatoooo

Caleb Logan LeBlanc

added by 2027macoy.ella
2 years ago

Potato potato, your death is now my sorrow

Impostor

added by 25ratcma
2 years ago

You have these sort of potato chip-like bones preserved in very hard rock, and you've got to remove the bones from the rock without destroying them.

Matthew Brown

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It wasn't just sweet potato pies, but it was the feature, if you will, that was the highlight and everyone went home with their own.

Jasmine Myers

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Animals put their heads in the bags and they can't get them off and suffocate, i always cut my potato chip bags so they're not like a little pocket and they can't get their heads inside. AWARE Wildlife Center's mission.

Marjan Ghadrdan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You have to give people a reason why they should listen to you. And when there's other alternatives up there that are acceptable, there's always this question like why are you on the shelf ? ... I mean, do we really need eight variations of barbeque potato chips ? I've got four choices. I'm going to find some barbeque potato chips I like.

Stuart Stevens

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are some soups that any Mexican mothers could prepare! Borscht, for example, because they use the potato in a very similar way. Of course, there's a little bitter Russian flavor to it, but if I wanted Mexican food, I would have stayed in Mexico!

Heriberto Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It's not really the cliche of sitting around and eating a bag of potato chips and playing games, there is more to it and this is starting to explode and be a new world order that's taking over regular sports.

Alexander Bernstein

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

A salad with grilled chicken is fine, but try adding a baked sweet potato, a heaping scoop of chickpeas or even a thick, hearty lentil soup.

Tamara Duker Freuman

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The only healthy potato is a steamed organic sweet potato -Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker

Johnny Wowk

added by anonymous
7 years ago

The Small Change Diet, creamy hummus adds a lot of flavor to a baked potato, with a lot less calories than butter.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This gentleman during World War II noted that the mortality of celiac disease was zero, and he didn't realize immediately why until when the war was over and the mortality went back to the pre-war era, something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat.

Alessio Fasano

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat.

Alessio Fasano

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Feeding the odd potato chip or pretzel probably won’t do any harm.

Carmela Stamper

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The main limitations are that this is from a group of men born more than 100 years ago in Sweden, although it’s very likely that the general principles hold today, there probably was n’t much ‘ couch potato ’ behavior in those days.

Venkatesh Murthy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It probably costs more to eat here, what are you supposed to feed your kids? Potato chips?

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The issue (of resettlement) will be a hot potato in the coming period because even though this could be kept in a semi-secret state... someone somewhere - I think in Berlin this week - will announce that 4-500,000 Syrian refugees could be brought straight from Turkey to the EU, this nasty surprise still awaits Europeans.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I love pie, sweet potato is my favorite, with pumpkin being a close second this time of year.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Champagne offers a bit of complexity but not too much to overshadow a meal so it is easily paired alongside a variety of foods, from pastas, seafood and cheeses to eggs, popcorn and potato chips.

Cyril Brun

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Unlike maize, orange potato can brave most conditions and is also resistant to rust diseases.

Himelda Tumbo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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