How to Use millet in a Sentence

millet

noun
  • Try a mix of white rice, millet, and/or quinoa, which all cook in about the same time.
    — Carey Polis, Bon Appetit, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Tiny and bead-shaped, quinoa is about the size of millet or couscous.
    — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2017
  • To attract them, set out seeds with millet, oat, and wheat.
    — Kier Holmes, Martha Stewart, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Stay away from bags filled with the white seeds (millet), which is for ground feeders.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
  • With less cooking liquid, millet can be fluffy and light like rice or quinoa.
    — Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
  • White millet seed can be spread on the ground to attract ground-feeding birds.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
  • White millet seed can be spread on the ground to attract ground-feeding birds.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Include grains such as quinoa, barley, and millet in your meals.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The drinks were crafted from grains such as millet, rice, wheat and barley.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Taro and millet have got scarce, and since there’s hardly any rice left the gruel is thin.
    — Hiromi Kawakami, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2024
  • This came at the expense of crops like millet, sugar (cane and beet), rice, and wheat.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2017
  • Barley, sorghum, oats, millet, rye, and wild rice are grasses, too.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Bring to a simmer and whisk in reserved millet; season with salt.
    — Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2017
  • Eating more millet is not only good for the planet, but also good for you.
    — Maria Speck, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
  • As in Syria, the medium was kabab, but here the ground meat was mixed with millet, then fried.
    — Anissa Helou, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2018
  • At home, his daily diet of millet paste is very poor in nutrients.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • New Grist is made with sorghum, malted millet, rice, hops, water and gluten-free yeast.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Some blends combine protein from whole grains—like brown rice, buckwheat, millet, and seeds—and legumes.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 9 June 2024
  • Grains allowed on a gluten-free diet include corn, quinoa, rice, gluten-free flours, millet, and teff.
    — Rebecca Jaspan, Mph, Health, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Gluten-free sourdough bread is made with gluten-free flours such as those made with millet, sorghum, teff, quinoa, and buckwheat.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Instead of only wheat flour, jianbing recipes often use mung bean flour or millet flour.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Gluten-free sourdough bread is made with gluten-free flours such as those made with millet, sorghum, teff, quinoa, and buckwheat.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 21 June 2026
  • Gluten-free sourdough bread is made with gluten-free flours such as those made with millet, sorghum, teff, quinoa, and buckwheat.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Gluten-free sourdough bread is made with gluten-free flours such as those made with millet, sorghum, teff, quinoa, and buckwheat.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The changes also expand access to whole grains like quinoa, wild rice and millet and to foods such as teff and whole wheat naan.
    — CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Ultimately, both oats and millet are great choices for your plate.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 4 May 2026
  • Ultimately, both oats and millet are great choices for your plate.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Today, most baijiu is distilled from sorghum, but wheat, rice, corn, and millet can also be used.
    — Clara Wang, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The thinai khichdi on the latest menu is an homage to the millets his grandmother grew.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2025
  • German bread is composed mainly of whole grains, such as rye, spelt, millet, and wheat that are less processed.
    — Judy Buchenot, Aurora Beacon-News, 27 Apr. 2017

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