How to Use granary in a Sentence

granary

noun
  • The woodpeckers have learned that the granary tree is the best way to do this.
    — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Near their pitch is an ancient granary that climbers can’t visit.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Masten stored these finds on the floor of his granary for public viewing.
    — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2020
  • That, in turn, will drive up demand and prices for shipping, and reduce what granaries pay for crops.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • After that, the city built a granary on top of the Jewish cemetery.
    — Shai Carmi and David Reich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • After that, the city built a granary on top of the Jewish cemetery.
    — David Reich, The Conversation, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The property also has a barn, summer kitchen, granary, buggy house, blacksmith shop and outhouse.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2017
  • Known as a granary tree, the same tree is often used year after year and may contain upward of 50,000 acorns.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • There the researchers found what appeared to be a granary, a beehive or globular-shaped hole in the ground typically built to store grain or corn.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
  • In 2013, the granary was converted into a parking garage.
    — David Reich, The Conversation, 30 Nov. 2022
  • What sort of public action might effectively mimic a reserve or a granary to solve this conundrum?
    — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • They are known as granary trees and represent a unique characteristic of acorn woodpeckers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Generally, the wall perimeter protected the village granary, which was often the first point of attack for slave raiders.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Its copper furnace and granary had remained semi-intact even after the British plundered the site’s bricks for a railroad.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Last year, stymied barge traffic meant nearby granaries filled up, leaving some farmers scrambling for more expensive or distant storage options.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Your camp is on a sandy beach near Nankoweap Rapids, overlooked by a set of 900-year-old Ancestral Puebloan granaries.
    — Robert Earle Howells, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Julien grew up in Indiana, where his father operated several granaries.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 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
  • Circle back to the center through narrow lanes and past ancient granaries, ramparts and historic fortifications (one now famous as a leaning tower).
    — Hugh Biggar, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Along the nearby Motława River, former granaries and warehouses now house cafés and restaurants, a reminder of the city’s long maritime history.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2026
  • Follow the mud-brown river past Louisiana’s chemical plants, oil refineries, granaries, ports, and the rail networks and highways that spring from its fingers.
    — Katia Dmitrieva, Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2018
  • When the People’s Liberation Army reached Shenyang, the shop was commandeered and turned into a people’s granary.
    — Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • The Food Corporation of India’s granaries, in which the government stocks food grains for use during calamities, have been overflowing for most of last year.
    — Aarefa Johari, Quartz India, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Nesting is also a communal activity of the acorn woodpecker, beginning in April when nest holes are drilled into large trees, generally near a granary tree.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • For some Argentine agricultural experts, the rise in global food insecurity and tightening food supplies risks turning the country away from its roots as a great granary to the world.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2022
  • The Latter-day Saint congregation met first in a schoolhouse, Amott said, and then on the upper floor of a granary before the church was built around 1900.
    — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
  • The 194,000-square-foot fortress houses a cathedral, a granary and grain silos, World War II bunkers, and four museums.
    — AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This never felt more poignant to me than at House on Fire, which is actually not the remains of a house, but of ancient granaries constructed by the Ancestral Puebloan people.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Russian forces struck granaries in Odessa on Friday, the fourth consecutive day of attacks on Ukrainian ports and agricultural facilities.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • The granary/bunkhouse alone — with its rare brick nogging construction — requires stabilization and rehabilitation estimated at $1 million.
    — Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025

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