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.

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

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

  • Sugarcane was revered by the planters and government conservatives as “white gold” (l’or blanc) for the immense wealth it brought.

  • 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.


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