Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use boll in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word boll? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
According to Shurley and Bednarz, peak maturity of a cotton boll occurs at its opening.
The year before boll weevils marched into Georgia in 1915, the state produced 2.8 million bales of cotton.
A tiny cotton boll harvested from a field ends up in a 500-pound bale that is shipped to textile mills or traded on the world market.
With subsequent control of the boll weevil, cotton cultivation has increased but has not surpassed peanuts as the primary cash crop.
Today, it's not the boll weevil but the pink bollworm that threatens southwestern Pima, nesting inside the bolls, where it is hard to get.
Before the eradication program started, I was already using boll weevil traps, and I didn't have any trouble with the boll weevil at all.
Adding to cotton growers' woes, the boll weevil migrated from Mexico to Texas in the 1890s and gradually invaded the entire cotton belt.
Until he saw the eradication program in use, he could hardly believe that he would ever see the day when the boll weevil would be eliminated.
The spindles grasp the fiber and selectively pull it out of the boll, leaving unwanted plant parts or trash behind.
Initially, localized spots appear and progressively coalesce to cover the whole cotton boll.
There is also significant reproduction of boll weevils in nature on a number of wild malvaceous hosts, including weeds.
Nearly 5 million small farmers in China, India, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico now grow cotton genetically modified to protect it against the boll weevil.
If you want to know if the boll weevil is likely to attack your cotton, you'd best be looking at past, current, and potential paths of the weevil worldwide.
Although many were able to withstand natural disasters such a floods and drought, the boll weevil and the variable price of cotton, there were also those that did not.
The U.S. cotton industry, facing serious economic challenges, focused on elimination of the boll weevil as one of the best ways to reduce its enormous costs.
Not only is it thirstier than most other commercial crops, it requires heavy applications of pesticides to keep boll weevils and other pests at bay.
Every portrait looked like a naked boll weevil with a fuzzy smile.
At first, manufacturers who used the arsenic to make an insecticide for killing cotton boll weevils in the South provided the most lucrative market for Anaconda's byproducts.
Without such natural interference, the offspring of a single pair of boll weevils could amount to several million in one season.
And cotton crops would often fail when pests like the boll weevil tore through the fields.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
We have also been dealing with an invasion from Guatemala for some time, the boll weevil.
The Indians in part of Guatemala raise cotton, although the boll weevil is abundant.
A boll of malt was weekly brewed into ale, which was used by the household at discretion.
To explain this, we must start in by a sort of detour, with the boll Weevil.
The occasion of the meetings was the approach of the boll weevil to their districts.
They deserve to pay twenty cents a pound for their cotton when the boll weevil has cut down the normal supply.
On the third day they fade completely, and the development of the boll begins.
The cotton farmers, especially those in the boll weevil territory, cannot afford to depend entirely on cotton as a cash crop.
By that time they have increased so rapidly that there is often one for every boll in the field.
The cotton crop of the country is threatened with root rot, the bollworm, and the boll weevil.
They could be found on practically every boll of every cotton plant in the infested area and in some cases with over 30 bugs in a single boll.
Gathering the crop before the boll is properly ripened and matured.
Of late years the greatest pest has been the Mexican boll weevil.
He that eats a boll o' meal in bannocks eats a peck o' dirt.
On which he ordered her one boll of meal of her own to be given her.
The boll weevil came along and wiped out his intermediate cotton crops.
There was one, Cliff Boll, who could neither read nor write so he got several of us to write his letters to his girlfriend.
Boll 9 medium-size ears fresh yellow corn in salted water, covered, 2 to 3 minutes.
Pride of place goes to the photograph which won the pounds 12,000 first prize, Joe, by 29-year-old Richard Boll.
The victim was flown to a hospital, said Harlan Boll, Hedren's publicist.
Show More Sentences
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
4-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024