grain elevator
noun
: a building for elevating, storing, discharging, and sometimes processing grain
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The concrete silos were still operating as a grain elevator in 1990, when an early-morning explosion blew the roof off the structure and rattled nearby homes, according to the Houston Post archives. —
Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026 The new restaurant at 405 Sixth St., Waukee, sits in the shadow of the grain elevators in Old Town. —Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 15 Jan. 2026 The nest boxes can be placed in a variety of structures, including barns, silos, granaries, grain elevators, and church steeples, or mounted on a free-standing pole. —Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 15 Dec. 2025 The farm was outside of Masonville, a town in Eastern Iowa with a fish fry/bar, a church, a grain elevator and not much else. —Dan Pompei, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grain elevator
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Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026 The new restaurant at 405 Sixth St., Waukee, sits in the shadow of the grain elevators in Old Town. —Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 15 Jan. 2026 The nest boxes can be placed in a variety of structures, including barns, silos, granaries, grain elevators, and church steeples, or mounted on a free-standing pole. —Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 15 Dec. 2025 The farm was outside of Masonville, a town in Eastern Iowa with a fish fry/bar, a church, a grain elevator and not much else. —Dan Pompei, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grain elevator
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