How to Use plantation in a Sentence

plantation

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  • The best are the cart-in sites, which are large and private, some tucked into a pine plantation.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022
  • The geckos were found in a cave and perched on rocks near a road, temple and tea plantation.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
  • After work, Heid jumped in his truck and drove to the plantation with a machete.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The island was once home to a plantation that produced 75% of the world's pineapples.
    — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Even the school's moniker — Ole Miss — derives from the term enslaved people once used for the mistress of the plantation.
    — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Ball agreed, and for a number of years Nero took his rations from the plantation smokehouse in beef.
    — Edward Ball, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
  • The grasses — relics of the sugar cane plantations in the area that largely shuttered in 1999 — dried out the landscape.
    — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The couple built their home by hand and, that same year, started the coffee plantation.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
  • By the late 19th century many of those trees had been burned to make way for sugar plantations.
    — Ed Komenda and Audrey McAvoy, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Outside the church are the graves of those who created the plantation’s wealth and macabre history.
    — Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • This former coconut plantation re-emerged in the 1960s as a small resort.
    — Tracey Minkin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The dusty dirt roads on St. Helena still bear plantation names.
    — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • At 18, she and her sister were sold to Robert Smith, a plantation owner in Logtown, Miss.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • In prison plantations across the United States, slavery thrives.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • He was born in the Caribbean in 1745 to an enslaved Black woman and a White French plantation owner.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The plantation company paid workers both in cash and in food and supplies.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • The movie tells the story of a young boy who visits his grandmother's plantation after the Civil War.
    — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In 1887, armed white men killed dozens of Black plantation workers after a labor strike.
    — José Sánchez Córdova, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Her scenes, for instance, were filmed on a real plantation.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Torres, the plantation owner, would like to see that type of troubled exporters kicked out of the industry.
    — Regina Garcia Cano, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The plantation was owned by the ancestors of the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch for about 200 years.
    — Time, 6 July 2023
  • Scuttling under the pines at a plantation in the highlands of Tanzania, a long critter took a step.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Palmer would sit on the balcony of her hilltop estate, which offered panoramic views of the 4,000-acre plantation.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Part of the story is Kevin is insulated from a lot of the worst things that happen on the plantation because of his whiteness.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Napoleon had planned to grow food along the Mississippi, which would feed the workers on his Haitian sugar plantations.
    — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • That’s where the swerving paths of Wideman’s fiction lead: to the prison, the plantation, the ghetto, the street, places where black people are brutalized and must fashion a life.
    — Tobi Haslett, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Will Smith is a fugitive from a sugar plantation, desperate to make his way across Union lines.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
  • It’s been that way since white settlers arrived to bankroll new cotton plantations.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
  • Enslaved people who worked on the island’s plantations also purchased goods and services with them.
    — Alev Aktar, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Many of these people were taken to the Caribbean to work on sugar plantations, which made their owners wealthy through the export of sugar, molasses and rum, according to the National Archives.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024

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