gin
Example Sentences
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A delayed November jobs report and key inflation reading are not the only things that could gin up market turmoil.
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin expanded slavery across the Deep South.
“The purists, they get cranky about this, you know, and say that it’s supposed to be gin and vermouth and that’s all a martini should be.”
From Salon
With the 1793 invention of the cotton gin—which separated cotton fibers from its seeds with a previously undreamed-of efficiency—America’s plantation economy expanded exponentially and so did its use of slave labor.
He is best known for his invention of the cotton gin, a machine that transformed cotton production, with tragic consequences for workers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
