plantations

Example Sentences

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Unlike in Mexico, where vast plantations dominate the landscape, nobody grows agave commercially in India - at least not yet.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

But the land was fertile, and the Native Americans told of even richer soil to the east, ideal for encomiendas, as large Spanish-ruled plantations exploiting indigenous labor were called.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Brazil’s coffee-growing monoculture left much of the country dependent on imported food, particularly white flour from the slave-worked mills of Richmond, which in turn encouraged the development of new capital-intensive wheat plantations in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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

“Yes. It is work in the tea plantations of Ceylon.”

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya