Example sentences for: jamaica

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

  • The decision was made to import a work force from West Africa, resulting in some 600,000 slaves being transported to Jamaica over the next few decades.

  • This is sharply at odds with the relative proportions in 1988, when the majority of temporary foreign agricultural workers came from Jamaica (12,609) and only 2,499 came from Mexico.

  • Jamaica Kincaid is great at describing rage.

  • In 1670 the Spanish officially ceded Jamaica to British rule as part of the Treaty of Madrid, and the British began a systematic process of settlement, offering land and aid to prospective settlers.

  • In actuality, it was the population of Jamaica who discovered him — Columbus was really lost, thinking that he had found another route to Asia.


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