Example sentences for: cane

How can you use “cane” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With the introduction of a sophisticated irrigation system, crops such as rice, cotton, and sugar cane were cultivated for the first time on Spanish soil, as well as oranges, peaches, and pomegranates.

  • Henry B. ('56) and Nancy N. ('56) Blackwell Black Cane Society

  • The Portuguese saw valuable economic opportunity in their new possession and ordered Malvasia grapes from Crete and sugar cane from Italy in an effort to seed the island’s first cash crops.

  • When, in 1835, a would-be assassin pointed his pistol at Andrew Jackson, the pugnacious president simply charged at the assailant, brandishing his cane.

  • Mintz quotes some astonishing speeches by Abolitionists who easily equated cane sugar with murder, one of them even providing the precise calculus: "[I]n every pound of sugar used (the product of the slaves imported from Africa), we may be considered as consuming two ounces of blood."


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