How to Use plantation in a Sentence

plantation

noun
  • The quarters was a little sort of street of rude shanties, in a row, in a part of the plantation, far off from the house.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 14 June 2021
  • And in my mind, those two brothers are on the plantation.
    — CBS News, 15 June 2021
  • Healy, born in 1839, was the son of a Georgia plantation owner and a slave.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • 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 homes of most were far from being the plantation image.
    — Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Known as Cane Mill, the plantation spans roughly 4,000 acres in the southwestern part of the state.
    — Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The land became a hemp plantation, as the plant was Kentucky’s number one cash crop at the time.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2021
  • With more than 1,400 species of cacti, this is the island's largest cactus plantation and one of the world's best.
    — Lilly Graves, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Jacques drove me to L'Union Estate, a colonial-era farm with the largest vanilla plantation in the Seychelles.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Described as a folk opera, the work is set on an Arkansas plantation in the years after the Civil War.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • After all, what were the overseas guests of those plantation owners if not the region's first tourists?
    — Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The gains for agave plantation owners have been far larger, as over the last decade the price per kilo has climbed from less than a penny to as much as $30.
    — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Most of them are descended from slaves who worked on plantations.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
  • One of their great grandmothers was born here a slave in 1861, on what was then the Dixon plantation near Sparta, a few hours south of Atlanta.
    — Steve Osunsami, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The painting refers to the European migrants who moved to Brazil en masse to work its plantations following the abolition of the slave trade in 1888.
    — Emi Eleode, ARTnews.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In the 1950s, banana wilt swept through plantations of the then-dominant Gros Michel banana, driving the variety nearly to extinction.
    — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2025

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