plantations

Example Sentences

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After Britain abolished slavery in 1833, those formerly enslaved continued to work the plantations as contract employees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Only one bridge still links Tyre to areas further north, along a narrow, battered coastal road winding between banana plantations and orange trees.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Meanwhile the large sugar and tobacco plantations that once belonged to former colonizers were quickly being absorbed by American corporations — not by Cubans.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Unusually intense monsoon rains pummelled parts of South and Southeast Asia in November and December, triggering landslides and floods from Indonesia's rainforests to highland plantations in Sri Lanka.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Two days ago they fled their master, having heard news of Lord Dunmore’s proclamation, and have spent the last two nights in flight across plantations.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson