How to Use plantation in a Sentence

plantation

noun

• 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
• The foreman continued to taunt Burch, urging him to go back to his plantation.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• But many plantations have fallen into neglect, so the trees are no longer useful for lumber.
  — Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2025
• Approximately half of the kids lived in the same household as workers from flower plantations.
  — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Mar 2025