How to Use grain elevator in a Sentence

grain elevator

noun
  • Wheat, corn and soy would come and go along the train tracks that ran right to the grain elevator.
    — Desmond Butler, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
  • Put it in a bag and take it to your local grain elevator or extension office.
    — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The price of wheat is not set at the grain elevator, it is set in the Chicago futures market.
    — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Beyond the privacy fence was a trailer park and a row of gray silos at the grain elevator.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • The town currently has an old house, old truck, grain elevator and two residents.
    — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • With the old grain elevator came 15 acres of Locust Point land.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Barnes’ group can move a million bushels of crops in and out of the massive grain elevators each week, but right now there is very little movement.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The Pioneer name soared to new heights 20 years later with a then state-of-the-art grain elevator.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The first grain elevator on the site, made of wood, burned to the ground, so a replacement was erected, also out of wood, which also burned down.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2021
  • His mother was an expert seamstress and sold sewing machines; his father worked in a creamery and later ran a grain elevator.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The city is known for its towering grain elevators and is home to Vance Air Force Base.
    — Ashley Killough, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • One large grain elevator can still be seen today when driving down Main Street in downtown Frisco.
    — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The grain elevator would be visible from parts of the plantation memorial site.
    — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 20 May 2022
  • Long abandoned, the land features an old grain elevator, a gravel parking lot and an emergency shelter for the homeless.
    — Ian Austen, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The silence was broken only by a vintage pickup truck pulling up to the Downs grain elevator, huge mounds of excess grain piled high on the ground all around it.
    — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 1 May 2018
  • Court documents show that Hanson contracted with farmers and grain elevators last year to buy crops and either failed to pay them or sent them checks that bounced.
    — Dave Kolpack, Twin Cities, 18 June 2019
  • On one occasion, according to court records, Clouse chased Torres through a grain elevator and used a Taser on him.
    — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • At dinner one night, Lisa Schemm pulled out her phone to check the latest price at her local grain elevator, in Sharon Springs.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • In a town like that, in the business that my grandparents started was the grain elevator business, and the grain elevator business, farmers bring you grain.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 July 2023
  • The nest boxes can be placed in a variety of structures, including barns, silos, granaries, grain elevators, and church steeples, or mounted on a free-standing pole.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The nest boxes can be placed in a variety of structures, including barns, silos, granaries, grain elevators, and church steeples, or mounted on a free-standing pole.
    — Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 15 Dec. 2025
  • But dozens didn’t turn to thousands until his work as a grain elevator repairman landed him in Germany, which has been the hub of handmade marbles for hundreds of years.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Pallets of water were delivered to NorthStar Saloon a few blocks from the grain elevator.
    — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • Soybeans are piling up across the Midwest, spilling out of bins and grain elevators from North Dakota to Missouri.
    — Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The area along the railroad sprouted a foundry, a fertilizer factory and flour mill, a grain elevator, a cannery, a creamery and ice cream factory, and a fruit packing firm.
    — Frank Batavick, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The next morning, David used a semi truck to deliver the wheat that Lisa had harvested to the grain elevator in Sharon Springs.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • Haidai accused Russia of attacking a grain elevator tons of grain in Rubizhne, a city in Luhansk, in April.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
  • Ryder typifies many farm towns in the Upper Midwest, with a grain elevator, a cafe and a tavern, as well as a business that provides workers for oil and gas rigs.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The nursing homes in Ainsworth and Minden had already closed, and the one located next to a grain elevator in Callaway was running a waiting list.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Built inside a huge grain elevator that once belonged to the Quaker Oats people, the hotel and its restaurants are awash in oat memorabilia.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2023

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