Example sentences for: sugarcane

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

  • All tourist-oriented and hotel shops sell rum, whether aged from three to six years (añejo) or low-grade aguardiente (from sugarcane alcohol) with humorous labels.

  • Under Spanish rule, land was taken from the Maya and turned over to tobacco and sugarcane plantations, and the once-proud Indians were reduced to farm laborers.

  • Although sugarcane continues to be grown today (for molasses and the brandy-like aguardente), it has long ceased to be the island’s major crop.

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

  • Ashore, fields of sugarcane and banana plantations drape steep hills and rolling plains.


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