planter
Example Sentences
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"I don't want my children to be planters like me," added Kone.
From Barron's
As a pure planter, the company is expected to benefit from any rise in crude palm oil prices, she says.
Businesses have installed planters and other noisemaking devices to make staying in front of a storefront inconvenient.
From Los Angeles Times
That opened the door to a boom in cotton production, but many more workers would be needed to harvest the crop—a need that planters filled with a massive expansion of slavery.
In the covered outdoor corridors, Irhil and the other families have appropriated the space, setting up planters on ledges, a dish-washing station in a classroom sink, and clotheslines between the columns.
From Barron's
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