Example sentences for: hacienda

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

  • Notable is the Hacienda Jalisco, the old center of mining activity, and now an inn run by ex-pat Bud Acord.

  • However, in the late 19th century, the hacienda or plantation owners found a crop that grew successfully and was much in demand around the world — the henequen plant.

  • Just 10 km (6 miles) farther east is the Manacas-Iznaga, where you can explore a lovely colonial hacienda house and its startling, rocket-shaped Torre de Manacas-Iznaga.

  • A great many words in Quechua begin with hua- or gua- (used interchangeably), so when the hacienda owner tells his Indian quachimán to keep a sharp lookout on his nightly rounds, neither may realize that the word derives from watchman . And when Mami is persuaded that daughter needs a new sweater and buys her a chompa , neither may think of the long departed Englishwomen whose jumpers brought the word into the language.

  • The road climbs steeply into dense vegetation and cooler air before you see signs for the hacienda; the climate and environmental conditions here were ideal for the coffee that the plantation began to grow more than 150 years ago.


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