Example sentences for: plantations

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

  • After passing small pineapple and banana plantations, you’ll reach attractive Clarence Town, with its two large churches — one Anglican, the other Roman Catholic — built by Cat Island hermit architect Father Jerome.

  • No slaves meant almost no sugar production, until the first of some 80,000 Hindus from India and 16,000 free Africans began arriving as contract workers for Guadeloupe and Martinique plantations.

  • Herbert Gutman's The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 (1976) showed that slave families, while often broken up when members were sold or assigned to different plantations, were remarkably monogamous and stable.

  • From then on, Bali and the Balinese came to be looked on as unique — to be protected from the colonial treatment that had turned the other islands into plantations exploited for profit.

  • Amid fields of big green leaves ripening in the sun and plantations covered in canvas sheets stand wooden tobacco barns.


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