cotton

Example Sentences

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In the early 20th century, irrigation reforms turned the Mexican borderlands into rich terrain for cotton growing, attracting migrant laborers from all over the country.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.

From Barron's

I know that posture, those jeans, that casual cotton shirt.

From Literature

“Oh, it needs a lowrider. It needs a palm tree. It needs perfect orange, cotton candy lighting.”

From Los Angeles Times

It wound up like a dark cloud of cotton candy behind her head.

From Literature