How to Use sugarcane in a Sentence
sugarcane
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Cachaça, made of sugarcane and beloved in Brazil, is the spirit to start with.
— Brittany Leitner, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2024 -
One farmer is growing sugarcane a few miles south in the Lecompte area.
— USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019 -
And that night, in the sugarcane fields, a bed of leaves was prepared for the baby, and Chika slept in the dirt, under the Haitian sky.
— Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2020 -
The river basins produce 34 percent of the world’s rice (half of which is grown in the Yangtze Basin) and 17 percent of the world’s sugarcane.
— National Geographic, 16 June 2020 -
Pair it with a glass of electric green sugarcane juice.
— Elise Taylor, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2019 -
Choloma was once known as a center of the sugarcane trade.
— Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024 -
For five years the shipmates labored in the cotton, rice, and sugarcane fields.
— National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020 -
Order the smoked duck, which is salted and smoked over sugarcane.
— Cnt Editors, CNT, 19 Sep. 2017 -
Rum has been made on the islands since the 1700s, when sugarcane plantations covered the land.
— Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017 -
Look at something called Carnival, which comes from a French [word that] means the burning of the sugarcane.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021 -
The 50-50 joint venture will form the new BP Bunge Bioenergia firm to make fuel ethanol out of sugarcane.
— Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 22 July 2019 -
The Cuban government had opened shelters and moved to protect sugarcane and cocoa crops ahead of the storm.
— Andrea RodrÍguez, ajc, 5 July 2021 -
Their father, Gordon, worked in the sugarcane fields while their mother, Mary, raised the 12 children, six boys and six girls.
— Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2023 -
They were brought from the western coast of Africa to toil in the vast fields of sugarcane that once helped make Portugal one of the wealthiest empires in the world.
— Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2020 -
This way, the chimpanzees would have less incentive to raid his sugarcane fields.
— Vladan Shir, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2024 -
So, that just leaves the Ralph Angel’s quest to reclaim the Bordelon sugarcane fields.
— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022 -
What if farmers could grow sugarcane in a matter of seconds, not days or weeks?
— Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2017 -
Grape, corn, and sugarcane distillates make for a balanced blend that can be sipped straight.
— Gabriela Aoun, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2020 -
The sugarcane plantation had been around since before we were born, our whole side of the island shagged with fields of cane, mauka to makai.
— New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020 -
Insider Tip: Don't skip the sugarcane juice with kumquat.
— Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023 -
Patients come from all corners of Lahore, from the sugarcane fields outside the city and from far-off villages.
— Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024 -
The sugarcane grew back, ships and homes were hammered back together.
— Tristram Korten, Smithsonian, 17 Sep. 2019 -
There was one main road with shops, and then branching lanes with houses facing sugarcane fields.
— Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024 -
In the graphic, a leafy canopy mirrors the range of heights, leaf sizes and angles measured in real Brazilian sugarcane fields.
— Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2017 -
That area had once been used for sugarcane farming, according to state records, and was now fallow fields.
— Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023 -
There is no speed limit, but Oliver Arias drives at a crawl, rocking back and forth with each bump between crops of sugarcane.
— Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2020 -
The grassy sugarcane fields and verdant mountains, which vividly rise up into the sharp blue sky, will dazzle too.
— Mary Holland, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2021 -
Acres of sugarcane dominate the landscape here, not palm trees.
— Kate Payne, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Since cachaça is fermented from sugarcane plants, the liquor carries earthy, grassy, or (when aged) spicy or fruity flavors.
— Brittany Leitner, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2024 -
His mother would buy large, bamboo-like stalks of fresh sugarcane, peel off their fibrous outer layer and cube them up for the kids.
— Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2023
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