Example sentences for: sugar-cane

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

  • The province east of Havana — largely flat sugar-cane country — was in the 19th century Cuba’s most important cane-producing region.

  • A mock interview with Ricky Martin suggests that he is a secret policy wonk: He reads the New Republic and loves to expostulate on Puerto Rican sugar-cane subsidies and "la domestic policy loca."

  • Among the somewhat less generous parents and other relatives of kiddie donors are Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, the winemaking Gallos, the Florida sugar-cane Fanjuls, Wall Street billionaire George Soros, and former Tennessee Gov.

  • Spaniards born and raised in Cuba, known as criollos (creoles), managed the sugar-cane plantations but were not involved in the running of the country.

  • Here, sugar cane as high as three men grows in abundance, trucks trundle around with monster bundles of the stuff, and chimneys of sugar-cane factories poke skyward like cathedral towers.


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