Used in a Sentence

beets

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for beets.

Editorial note

It's either using natural colorants such as carrots, beets or turmeric, or cooking food that doesn't require coloration to appear appetizing.

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Quick take

A surname from Dutch.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of beets gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from Dutch.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for beets.

noun

A surname from Dutch.

Example sentences

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It's either using natural colorants such as carrots, beets or turmeric, or cooking food that doesn't require coloration to appear appetizing.

2

Adequate substitutes for colors include carrots, beets, and turmeric, which don't involve fat or sugar.

3

Those sugar beets might grow a bit slower in he months October-March or so.

4

There are some high carb veg like sugar beets or potatoes but most are like cucumbers where a plate full is about one gram.

5

The most common GMO crops are: canola, corn, cotton, soy and sugar beets.

6

Oh, well, Denmark and sugar beets then:) The paper shows a practical use of secret sharing and secure multiparty computation to discover the market price of a commodity.

7

They still give the sugar cane industry in Florida large subsidies (even though most sugar is from beets now) because sugar is apparently of such strategic importance to the US.

8

Plant beets on a strip 1/120 of the land each day, and after 120 days, your land will be full, and the first 1/120th part will be ready for harvesting.

9

I wrote the play plugin for beets last weekend that turns a query into a temporary playlist and opens it with your systems music player for just this reason.

10

I probably wouldn't eat Chernobyl beets.

11

You're very much not going to want to drink 'wine' made out of potatoes or beets-but if you take that same 'wine' and distill it, you end up with something that doesn't taste so awful.

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The real destroyers of the American food supply are the 7 major crops that have been transgenically modified with bacteria that produces insecticide and herbicide resistant bacteria so they can spray the crops with herbs: Corn, soy, cottonseed, alfalfa, papaya, canola, sugar beets.

Quote examples

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This is not really any less "adding sugar" than sweetening a product with sugar concentrated from sugar beets or corn.

2

Burnett more green beans, onions and beets." (Some of that would have been canned, but some certainly eaten fresh.) "Mr.

3

Do you similarly make fun of vegetarians with comments like “ Make sure and stay away from red beets and blood oranges, haw haw!

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The farm lobby trades on this heavily ("my family has been growing sugar beets for eight generations, we need the subsidies!").

Proper noun examples

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Surprised nobody has mentioned MusicBrainz, it's the free and open source music fingerprinting database which powers the Picard, Jaikoz, Beets, etc taggers.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use beets in a sentence?

It's either using natural colorants such as carrots, beets or turmeric, or cooking food that doesn't require coloration to appear appetizing.

What does beets mean?

A surname from Dutch.

What part of speech is beets?

beets is commonly used as noun.