How to Use sugar beet in a Sentence

sugar beet

noun
  • The truck’s bed had been used to carry sugar beets and it was rotted out.
    — A.j. Baime, WSJ, 24 July 2018
  • Sugar comes from sugar cane or sugar beets.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The county had sugar beet plants, a new plate glass factory, and salt wells.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Used to be sugar beets, until the factories closed.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • Gonzales was born in Denver and worked in sugar beet fields in his youth.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The sugar beet is a root crop, which is sliced and processed down into sugar cane and molasses.
    — Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The sugar beet harvest period is very compressed, about three weeks.
    — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • White sugar or table sugar is processed from sugar cane plants or sugar beets.
    — Barbie Cervoni, Verywell Health, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The cocoa mass is then mixed with refined sugar, usually from sugar beets.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
  • Lots of rain, as well as plant disease, added to headaches for sugar beet farmers in 2025.
    — Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Cane and beets Beet sugar comes from the root of the sugar beet plant, which grows in temperate climates.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Production and/or prices have declined for cotton, sugar beets, and some other field crops, as well as dairy.
    — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019
  • Cane sugar is a popular sweetener that comes from sugar cane or sugar beets.
    — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Farmers have switched to growing corn from sugar beets since the local sugar factory closed.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • As sugar is processed, the juice from sugarcane or sugar beets is boiled down, and molasses is what's left behind.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The Grand Island beef plant opened in 1965 in a sugar beet farming area.
    — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 7 May 2020
  • Zhao opts for a similar view from nowhere on Fern’s other gigs as a campground host, line cook, and sugar beet plant worker.
    — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • But what looks great from America’s sugar beet fields seems far less positive in the nation’s grocery aisles.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The company also told the town board that affected farmland (this is sugar beet country) would be buffered from any danger.
    — Audrey Gray, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2021
  • In the nuclear winter scenario, cities would need to focus on sugar beets and spinach, while near-urban plots handle wheat and carrots.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
  • Surrounding the city and sprinkled among its tidy tract neighborhoods, potatoes, alfalfa, sugar beets and corn grow in fields.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • These studies were conducted using sugar beets, which are a different variety but the same species as garden beets.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 17 July 2024
  • Orange orchards and sugar beets from Santa Ana area to Costa Mesa.
    — Shelby Grad, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
  • For 150 years the Buscall family has tended the land, growing wheat, barley and sugar beets.
    — NBC News, 3 May 2020
  • At the most basic level, that’s energy — so sugar that can be from sugar beets or cane or whatever makes sense for the local environment.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
  • As part of the federal safety net for farmers, the government also provides guaranteed loans for those who process sugar beets and sugar cane.
    — Kristina Peterson and Heather Haddon, WSJ, 16 May 2018
  • As a teenager, Halvorsen thinned sugar beet fields on his family’s farm outside of Garland for up to 10 hours a day.
    — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Only a handful of GM crops are available on the market, though some - such as corn and sugar beets - show up in a huge variety of food products.
    — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • That led to the closure of multiple sugar beet factories in the Westgate region and a rash of angry, violent protests.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
  • But recent years have posed a new challenge for Lee — and for many of the 700 or so southern Idaho sugar beet farmers like him.
    — Sarah Cutler march 10, Idaho Statesman, 10 Mar. 2026

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