How to Use rapeseed in a Sentence

rapeseed

noun
  • The farmers grow rapeseed, flaxseed, barley and wheat there now.
    — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • For the most part, the view was green in all directions, dotted with rapeseed fields and forests home to wild boars.
    — Zoey Poll, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Neat brick houses with flowering acacias out front are set among rolling fields of rapeseed and wheat.
    — Tibor Krausz, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2017
  • Most of the wheat, maize (corn), barley, rapeseed and dry peas that are grown are exported while potatoes, oats and rye are not.
    — Steven Savage, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • Even rapeseed was toxic until crop breeders transformed it into canola.
    — Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Between March and June, thousands of rapeseed (or canola) flowers emerge.
    — Alberto Piernas Medina, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The wax is a blend of soy, bee and rapeseed, all of which is 100 percent natural and paraffin-free.
    — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Vines were the worst hit, but almond and fruit trees were also affected, as well as some other crops, including beets and rapeseed.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Compared with soy or rapeseed, harvesting palm fruit requires 25 times more workers.
    — Eko Listiyorini, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2020
  • For their experiment, researchers planted fields of rapeseed, which is made into cooking oil.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
  • The researchers found similar results for other crops including maize, rapeseed, wheat and rice.
    — Carolyln Wilke, sacbee, 30 June 2017
  • Palm oil also has a much higher yield per acre than alternatives -- up to ten times more than rapeseed, soybean, olive and sunflower oils.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Pressed from the rapeseed plant, canola oil is similar to vegetable oil in flavor, color, smoke point, and usage qualities.
    — Bon Appétit, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Pressed from the rapeseed plant, canola oil is similar to vegetable oil in flavor, color, smoke point, and usage qualities.
    — Bon Appétit, 15 Feb. 2022
  • More than 9 million tons of corn, wheat, sunflower products, barley, rapeseed and soya have been exported since the deal was made.
    — Hyder Abbasi, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • High levels of erucic acid are observed in rapeseed oil, and although canola and rapeseed are cousins, canola is bred to have extremely low levels of the stuff.
    — Ian Burke, Saveur, 10 Oct. 2018
  • But unlike its close cousin, the rapeseed, it hasn't been extensively cultivated.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Ukraine is also a major world producer and exporter of other crops such as barley, corn, sunflower, and rapeseed.
    — Michael Slattery, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Know More Most biofuels consumed globally come from food crops such as corn, palm oil, rapeseed, and sugar.
    — Nithin Coca, semafor.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • After adding the beer and rapeseed waste into soil along with fresh cow manure, the researchers saw a major improvement in root health from just a single treatment.
    — Eric MacK, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • Olive oil is most often mixed with cheaper oils made from soybeans, corn, hazelnuts, or rapeseed, which can be dangerous for people with allergies.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2012
  • Fields of green, cattle grazing and sheep lazily milling about, and vast, shockingly bright swaths of yellow rapeseed flowers marked the countryside.
    — Lucas Peterson, New York Times, 26 July 2017
  • The producer farms about 1 million acres of grain, including wheat, corn and rapeseed, in Ukraine and makes sunflower oil.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Mar. 2022
  • This process created a new type of plant called canola that looks identical to the rapeseed plant but is free of toxic compounds called glucosinolates and erucic acid.
    — Jillian Kubala, Rd, Health, 10 July 2024
  • Ranges surrounded by fields of sunflowers and rapeseed are abuzz with new contraptions, which undergo a battery of tests before being cleared for the war.
    — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The long, empty platform of the TGV station in eastern France offers a vista of rapeseed fields stretching out as far as the eye can see.
    — Bloomberg.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Under the deal, the bloc would basically accept the national bans on four of the five main products — wheat, maize, rapeseed, and sunflower seeds — that account for most imports.
    — Raf Casert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Working with his son Kirill, 24, Tarasevich also grows peas, barley, corn, rapeseed and millet.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 10 May 2022
  • To help this one foam like real milk for lattes and cortados, Oatly fortifies the beverage with rapeseed oil, which adds fat without the need for stabilizers.
    — Ashley Mason, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2017
  • That’s important because soybean and palm oil — and, in Europe, rapeseed — are close substitutes for each other, and changes in one market tend to ripple through all three commodities.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019

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