Example sentences for: sugarcane

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

  • During this period, foreigners were allowed to buy large parcels of land for the first time (much of it used for the sugarcane plantations), and ties to America, both economic and political, were dramatically tightened, with talk of possibly annexing Hawaii reaching the White House.

  • In the 16th century, Madeira surrendered its dominance of the sugarcane industry to another, much larger, Portuguese colony, Brazil.

  • Here you will find one of Madeira’s few sugarcane mills still working, pumping out steam as it processes the sugarcane to make aguardente, the local liquor.

  • Yet Columbus (Columbo in Portuguese) returned six years later, by which time evidence suggests that he had become an experienced sugarcane merchant.

  • Sugarcane, the source of the greenery, flourishes here.


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