How to Use bushel in a Sentence

bushel

noun
  • Three years ago, a bushel of soybeans sold for about $14.
    — Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Bring a bushel of first-rounders to Ainge and the Heat would be on.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
  • But as of this week, the price is hovering around $9 a bushel.
    — Musadiq Bidar, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Corn futures trade at $8 per bushel, the highest price in a decade.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2022
  • There was a bushel basket full of chapstick for these firemen.
    — Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
  • School days and other civic functions were canceled by the bushel.
    — Michael D. Regan, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Vintage bushel baskets are very handy in the garden.
    — Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 5 Feb. 2026
  • At the very least, a person could shut up and hide ignorance under a bushel.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Indeed, a crazy tournament thus far led to a bushel of upsets.
    — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The acorns that sink to the bottom are packaged in burlap and sold by the bushel to the department.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Wheat and corn prices rose more than 5% per bushel and are already up more than 20% so far this year.
    — Damian J. Troise, Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Until recently, that drought a decade ago was the only time that corn cost more than $8 a bushel.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Other questions asked students to set a price for items such as a bushel of grain, a piece of lumber and a jug of milk.
    — Amanda Watts, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
  • There has always been a bunch of tepid hitting, and bouncing off with no wrapping up, leading to bushels of gash plays.
    — Kenny Rosarion, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The price of wheat futures fell by more than 5% Friday to around $760 per bushel.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
  • To enjoy bushels of your favorite fruits, there are some savvy ways to improve the health of your trees and enhance your harvest.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
  • For about four years, farmers had been paid less than $8 to $9 a bushel for soybeans, below the break-even point for many.
    — Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The price of wheat futures fell by more than 5 percent on Friday to around $760 per bushel.
    — New York Times, 22 July 2022
  • Sitting up high while barely five feet tall, no doors in the summertime, bushels of basil and rosemary from the farmer’s market wafting up to the front.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The only option clearly off the table is knocking on agents’ doors with bushels of $1,000 bills for their clients.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The Arndt family’s orchard has one bushel — about 40 pounds of apples — for just $30.
    — Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • But a farmer harvesting 150 bushels of corn per year from a field must replenish the nutrients to grow corn again the next year.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 June 2026
  • With this in mind, Pizza Hut Japan did the logical thing and threw roughly a bushel of it on a medium pie.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Wheat prices in Chicago, the global benchmark, have surged more than 50% this year and are close to record highs at about $12 a bushel.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 24 May 2022
  • The White House says China agreed to buy 12 million bushels of soybeans this year and about double that next year.
    — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Williams saw close to 100 bushels of wheat per acre irrigated last year, but this year might only have 30 to 40.
    — ABC News, 20 May 2026
  • Four bushels of leeks—Naama is on a leek kick this month and won’t stop scrolling the Times recipe app at all hours of the night, LOL!
    — Iris Bahr, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Michigan apple growers are expected to harvest a whopping 30 million bushels of apples this year.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The Hawks made a bushel of them during a 7-2 loss at the United Center to extend their winless streak to seven.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Cornerback Trent McDuffie is being sent to Los Angeles for a bushel of draft picks.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026

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