Example sentences for: slash-and-burn

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

  • Educational projects from nongovernmental organizations have helped to turn some farmers away from heavy reliance on slash-and-burn techniques, but fire suppression information remains to be distributed on the frontiers.

  • Sarawak’s coast and jungle interior were controlled by the Iban — Sea Dayak pirates and Land Dayak slash-and-burn farmers.

  • The profile also asserts that Dunlap's slash-and-burn technique would be ineffective for all but the sickest firms.

  • For example, many farmers still clear land by the ancient method of slash-and-burn, in which forest is chopped, left to dry, and then burned.

  • They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.


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