How do you use the word "rice" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "rice": Do you eat rice in your country? We Japanese live on rice.

Rice Meaning

/ɹaɪs/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounCereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.

nounA specific variety of this plant.

Sentence Examples

Do you eat rice in your country?

We Japanese live on rice.

A festival is held at the rice harvest.

CEFR Practice Quiz

For dinner last night, we ate cooked ____ with vegetables and chicken.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She cooked a large pot of ____ to serve alongside the spicy curry she had been preparing all afternoon.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi). Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east. Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici). Doublet of arroz.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies." — 1831, Daniel Jay Browne, The Naturalist, volume 1, page 375:

"Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America." — 1982, International Rice Research Institute, Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice:

"Rice transformed with genes encoding human CYP1a1, CYP2B6, and CYP2C19 are more tolerant of various herbicides than non-transgenic rice plants, due to increased metabolism by the introduced P450 enzymes [Kawwahigashi et al. 2005a, 2007, 2008; James et al. 2008]." — 2014, V. S. Rao, Transgenic Herbicide Resistance in Plants:

"The rices of Kashmír are infinite in variety. In one tahsíl I have found fifty-three varieties." — 1895, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, The Valley of Kashmír:

"First, we have the Italian rices; secondly, the rices of the French colonies of Indo-China and Madagascar, which are beginning to cultivate rices of very fine quality, altogether superior to those that were cultivated only a few years back." — 1922 April 26, L. Humbert, “America Has Hard Competition in France”, in Rice Journal and Southern Farmer, volume 25, number 4:

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