Example sentences for: plantation

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

  • It added, "After all, it is not the absence of an agreement, but the failure to implement it, that brought about the need to meet at Wye Plantation."

  • Descended from light-skinned slaves who enjoyed a privileged position in the plantation hierarchy, the "black elite" continues to hoard access to its boarding schools, social events, and churches: "Why," asks one pedigreed lady, "would I be socializing with some caseworker or mailman who goes to NAACP events?"

  • The general never returned to his plantation.

  • A trip to the banana plantation of Bananera El Guanche (see pages 26), outside Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, may not initially sound very exciting to a youngster.

  • It only took a few days of national publicity to force a North Carolina college to cancel a course on the theme that American slaves were happy on the plantation.


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