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:

  • 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."

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Hard-drinking locals down poncha (sugar-cane brandy, lemon juice, and honey) in shadowy bars, while grizzled old fishermen play cards or repair their boats, awaiting their next trip.


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