How to Use plantation in a Sentence

plantation

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• The next two days are spent in Lahaina, Maui, home base for a cruise among dolphins and whales, a plantation tour, or a traditional luau.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
• They were then packed onto a smaller ship to be transported to plantations.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 June 2023
• The small, wood-frame homes were stacked along a narrow maze of roads that trace their origins to the footpaths worn by sugar plantation workers — decades before the first zoning laws in the 1960s.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
• Sugar, since the days of plantation slavery through today, has owned one of the worst track records for barbaric labor practices.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Some have planted large fruit trees, such as peach or plum, to provide shade for tea plantations, while others added more compost to nourish their plants.
  — Carlotta Dotto, CNN, 6 June 2023
• But, by rights, there should be a statue erected in his honor at every tobacco plantation the length and breadth of the nation.
  — Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
• This is old plantation country, a part of the Mississippi Delta, where settlers and slave owners long ago cleared the forest to plant cotton.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• My playground, my brother, sister, our playground was the burnout house plantation of my great, great uncle.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
• The story began as Lisbon’s first enslaver died, and the man’s son inherited the plantation.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Soon, Evie, an enslaved old friend of Charlotte is brought to Philadelphia with a mistress from their old plantation.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
• In Brazil, Benedito helps lead an uprising on the plantation.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
• White plantation owners often fed enslaved Black people meat scraps, such as pigs’ feet, neck bones, ears, snouts and intestines.
  — V.m. Vines, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
• Set on a remote Indonesian island during the waning days of the colonial era, the film centers on Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan and his wife, Agathe, who are at the top of the food chain.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2023
• Peatlands are drained for economic purposes – to put in a plantation, for example, with the idea that the land will be more productive.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Their islands are plagued by sprawling fallow fields — a legacy of the plantation era that endured for decades until many farms and ranches abruptly closed at the end of the last century.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• Their islands are plagued by sprawling fallow fields - a legacy of the plantation era that endured for decades until many farms and ranches abruptly closed at the end of the last century.
  — Darryl Fears, Allyson Chiu and Elahe Izadi, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
• In Accounting for Slavery, Caitlin Rosenthal talks about the spreadsheets—the accounting books—used on plantations.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024