Meaning of bushel in English
(Definition of bushel from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
bushel | Intermediate English
bushel | Business English
MEASURES
Examples of bushel
bushel
She said her mother worked all day in a factory and then would come home to can a bushel of tomatoes.
From Chicago Tribune
Already there are bushels of gadgets designed to track user's daily activity whether on a treadmill, hike, or in the office.
From CNET
It was once used to hoist bushels of produce to a storage space above the ground-floor office.
From New York Daily News
But corn prices climbed to more than $7 a bushel, about twice the administration's long-term prediction.
From NBCNews.com
Why hide your beauty under a bushel of hair?
From New York Times
As an analogy, suppose a farmer is able to produce 10,000 bushels of wheat per year with the aid of irrigation from a nearby river.
From Heritage.org
A bushel of blackberry and plum flavors cascades on the palate with round, ripe tannins providing a velvety texture.
Of course there are bushels of bad ideas in each of our organizations.
From Huffington Post
Two-hundred bushels later, he finally ducked into the forepeak bunk room, below the galley in the bow of the ship, and slipped into bed, exhausted.
I mean, he counted the peas in a bushel of peas to see how many were there.
From Slate Magazine
A year earlier, he shipped 1 million bushels.
From Bloomberg
And while she may never reach the bushel volume of the olden days, at least for now, the saltworks are back in business.
From NPR
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