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Meanings
Noun
1. (husked grains of) rice
2. staple (product, etc.); necessity
Kanji used
rice
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Examples (27 in total)
He grows rice.
Do you eat rice in your country?
We live on bread and rice.
The main crop of Japan is rice.
We had a bad rice crop last year because it rained a lot.
There is a chronic oversupply of rice in Japan.
We shouldn't waste even one grain of rice.
An abundance of rice was produced last year.
The Japanese as a whole are a rice-eating nation.
Japan began to import rice from the United States.
The Japanese eat rice at least once a day.
Do you think we should import rice from the U.S.?
Unusually low temperatures account for the poor rice crop this year.
I like Japanese rice pillows; they are good for my neck.
They want to increase food production by growing new kinds of rice.
The price of rice has come down.
Rice is sold by the kilogram.
Japan's consumption of rice is decreasing.
The good harvest brought down the price of rice.
The chief crop of our country is rice.
Production of rice has decreased.
Rice is grown in many parts of the world.
Rice grows in warm climates.
Rice is the chief crop in this area.
In 1994, there was a shortage of water and rice in Japan.
The price of rice rose by more than three percent.
Most Japanese eat rice at least once a day.