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Example sentences for "pods"

Lexicographically close words:
podium; podophyllin; podra; podria; podrida; pody; poem; poemata; poeme; poems
  1. The green seed pods of radishes are sometimes used for pickling.

  2. The earliest bush beans yield marketable pods within forty to fifty days from planting; the pole beans in from seventy to ninety days from planting.

  3. The crop of green pods per acre may be rated at 100 bushels, more or less.

  4. Lima beans are more profitably sold in the pods than shelled, though some markets demand the shelled article.

  5. The team first succeeding in shelling all of the peas and having each player's pods lined up in a straight line, wins.

  6. At the signal to go the first player on each team runs forward, shells his peas into the dish and lays the six empty pods in a straight line behind the dish.

  7. It is very evident to me," observed his good mistress to her husband that night, when the pods were served at dinner, "that Hans Pumpernickel has something on his mind.

  8. Whereupon Hans went down into the kitchen and shelled the pease, only he retained the pods this time, and threw the pease to the pigs.

  9. The sweet mesquite pods are a favorite cattle food, and the beans pass unharmed through the digestive tract to be deposited far and wide.

  10. Pods are ground into flour and pressed to make little loaves of staple bread.

  11. These presumably came by way of Nepal; but musk pods of the highest class were also imported from Khotan viĆ¢ Yarkand and Leh, and the lowest price such a pod fetched at Yarkand was 250 tankas, or upwards of 4l.

  12. The brown pustular rust-looking spots on the foliage of beans, and, indeed, occasionally on the stems and pods of beans, are sometimes common to this crop.

  13. Let the pods be gathered with the stalks on before they turn red, and with a penknife cut a slit down the side, and take out all the seed, but as little of the meat as possible.

  14. Boil the liquor, put into it some mace and nutmeg beaten small; put the pods into a jar; when the liquor is cold, pour it over them, and tie down with a bladder and leather.

  15. The pods are about 1 inch broad and 3 inches long, but are generally bent or curled up; are excessively astringent, containing a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, for which reason they are used by tanners and dyers.

  16. You can see in this picture the great mass of pods to be found growing on the plant.

  17. You can see the pods scattered all through the plant.

  18. Not all plants of the same variety mature at the same time, but usually the maturity of pods on a single plant is sufficiently uniform to warrant pulling the entire plant.

  19. Soybeans are ready for table use as soon as the pods have completely filled out and while they are still green in color.

  20. To make hulling easier, pour boiling water over the soybean pods and let them stand 5 minutes in the hot water.

  21. The pods of the honey locust are one of the best foods to correct sugar deficiency and cattle like them and eat them freely.

  22. I have on my farm a thornless honey locust that produced ten bushels of pods one year.

  23. The threads are of cobweb, and the cavity is lined with the down of seed-pods and fine grass.

  24. Fruits of many kinds were scattered about, amongst which were numerous species of beans, some of the pods a foot long, flat and leathery in texture, others hard as stone.

  25. A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

  26. The essence of musk of the wholesale London druggists is generally made by merely digesting the freshly emptied musk pods in rectified spirit.

  27. From pods of capsicum, and cloves (bruised), of each 1 oz.

  28. The pods or fruit of Capsicum annuum (capsicum chilly), C.

  29. Dip the pods of dolichos in treacle, allow them to drain a moment, and then scrape off the hairs for use.

  30. The pods containing the seeds are gathered when ripe, and after having lain for a day and a night are opened, and the seeds, which are taken out by hand, are submitted to what is termed the sweating process.

  31. Sometimes it has been reared on the pods of the scarlet-runner bean.

  32. On the floor were loose piles of turnips, beets and of dried pods of coarse beans.

  33. The pods are eaten by many animals, and as the seeds are hard to digest, many are thus widely scattered from the parent tree.

  34. The gentian's bluest fringes Are curling in the sun; In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun.

  35. The fruit pods are oblong, large, and bear numerous seeds.

  36. And when the banks of the creek were bright with golden-rod and asters, and the milkweed pods were bursting, the Flickers started on their southern journey.

  37. Its drooping, fragrant, bell-shaped white flowers and long slender pods will help to recall it.

  38. Inclose this budded umbel in tarlatan gauze and it will bloom days after its fellow-blooms have fallen, anticipating its consummation, but no pods will be seen upon this cluster.

  39. They have become widely distributed, as the pods readily float when they drop into the water.

  40. A rather inappropriate name for the seed pods and small seeds of one of our common large deciduous shrubs, the Staphylea trifolia.

  41. This so-called chestnut tree has yellow flowers, succeeded by fibrous pods containing one large seed or nut, which, when roasted or boiled, resembles the chestnut in taste.

  42. Gather the pods when young and tender enough to thrust a needle through them easily, later they become hard and useless for pickles.

  43. To cook, cut the pods in rings, boil them in salted water until tender which will be in about twenty minutes.

  44. Take the pods as fresh and young as possible and shred them as finely as a small knife will go through them, cutting them lengthwise.

  45. Thin muslin bags are sometimes made to hold the whole pods without breaking.

  46. Pea-pods are sometimes boiled in a small quantity of water, then are skimmed out and the peas are boiled in this liquor.

  47. The pods dry on the branches, and rattle in the wind most of the autumn.

  48. The fruit, which consists of small pods hanging in clusters, is ripe in September.

  49. The pods ripen early in autumn or late in summer, and many become infested with grubs.

  50. The pods are from two to three and a half inches long, and contain small, mottled seeds.

  51. The belief has long prevailed that it was the pods of this tree on which John the Baptist fed while a recluse in the Syrian desert.

  52. The pods sometimes exceed a foot in length.

  53. The pods are from one to seven inches long, and hang on the boughs until late winter.

  54. The pods are in no hurry to let go and fall, even after they are fully ripe.

  55. The pods are nearly always present, for they have the pea family habit of adhering to the branches a long time.

  56. Before the first railroad reached San Antonio mesquite pods were a regular market commodity.

  57. Cattle devour the pods when in the sugary condition; but they cannot often obtain them, because thorns intervene, when the pods would otherwise be in reach.

  58. The seeds are ripe in September, and the pods which bear them burst soon after.

  59. The pods are entirely different from those of honey locust, being short and wide.

  60. The fruit is among the largest of the tree pods of this country, ranging in length from six to ten inches and from one and a half to two in width.

  61. PALO VERDE (Cercidium torreyanum) sheds its leaves and its pods so early in the season that its branches are bare most of the year.

  62. The flowers are many and white standing on long foot-stalks after which come small yellow seed, contained in small long pods like horns.

  63. Find the ripened seed pods of the trillium, open them, count the number of chambers, and examine the seeds.

  64. Distribute the seed pods among the pupils of the class and require them to estimate the number of seeds produced by each plant.

  65. Drawing of milkweed pods and seeds, and drawing of the dandelion seed-ball and the seeds when floating in the air.

  66. After the flowers disappear, note the forming of the little boat-shaped pods in pairs.

  67. Instruct the pupils to rub the ripened seed pods between the hands until the seeds are thrashed out, at the same time blowing away the chaff.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.