How to Use plantation in a Sentence

plantation

noun

• 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 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
• 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 most obvious examples are the pine plantations of the South or the Douglas fir plantations of the Pacific Northwest.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024