plantations

Example Sentences

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While plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia have not yet been affected, the risk of a stronger El Nino developing from July or August is rising, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

To the left and right, a dense forest frames the scene, while farther off, in the middle distance, a few lonely plantations and houses can barely be made out.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 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

When the nation split during the Civil War, Northerners could no longer get cane from those plantations along the Mississippi, so they had to go across the ocean—to paradise: Hawaii.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson