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Example sentences for: plantation
How can you use “plantation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Chief among these was Dennis Rolle, who brought over 100 slaves with him to start a cotton plantation.
The hillsides that surround the monastery are the site of Hong Kong’s only tea plantation.
The merchant seaman, plantation owners, and businessmen who thronged the city streets also looked for the distraction of other pleasures, and prostitution was rife in the less salubrious parts of town.
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?"
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.