Shayiri ni aina ya nafaka ambayo hutumiwa sana katika bidhaa za chakula, kama vile mkate, nafaka na bia. Ni mmea wa nafaka wa familia ya nyasi, yenye shina refu na miiba ya maua ambayo yana nafaka zinazoliwa. Neno "shayiri" linaweza pia kumaanisha nafaka zenyewe, pamoja na majani kutoka kwa mmea ambayo hutumiwa kwa malisho ya wanyama na madhumuni mengine. Shayiri ni zao muhimu katika sehemu nyingi za dunia na mara nyingi hutumika kama chanzo cha chakula na vinywaji kwa binadamu na mifugo.
1. England was wealthy in wood and textiles, its ports and shipyards produced both formidable warships and merchantmen and the temperate climate and fertile fields husbanded high yields of wheat and barley.
2. Through the windows of their carriage the travellers had glimpses of the diversified landscape of Behar, with its mountains clothed in verdure, its fields of barley, wheat, and corn, its jungles peopled with green alligators, its neat villages, and its still thickly-leaved forests.
3. Everyone that wanted a barley pop got one, Al Capone saw to that.
4. Golems lumbered through rows of wheat, barley, and plants Janis had no name for.
5. Thus warned and menaced, the castellan forthwith brought out a book in which he used to enter the straw and barley he served out to the carriers, and, with a lad carrying a candle-end, and the two damsels already mentioned, he returned to where Don Quixote stood, and bade him kneel down.
6. They found the page sifting a little barley for his horse, and Sanchica cutting a rasher of bacon to be paved with eggs for his dinner.
7. Sancho said he did not want anything more than a little barley for Dapple, and half a cheese and half a loaf for himself for the distance being so short there was no occasion for any better or bulkier provant.
8. In fact, my thoughts were on such a barley pop when a porter in a red Kepi cap tapped my shoulder and took my satchel.
9. I fell into a highroad, for so I took it to be, though it served to the inhabitants only as a footpath through a field of barley.
10. Once an agreement was reached, after much labored debating, Calder then had to see to it that the barley and apples were taken to the Brewster for ale and cider, the hay and oats to the Avener so the horses could be fed over the winter, the meat to the Butler for smoking and storage, and so on and so on.