planter

Example Sentences

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As a pure planter, the company is expected to benefit from any rise in crude palm oil prices, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

“I was trying to take a picture of the beautiful turquoise planter at the end of the pool, but the camera was on me, so I just snapped it,” she later told PEOPLE.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

Its storefront, painted with polka dots and decorated with giant butterflies, sits like a cheery oasis in Gustine’s four-block downtown, a riot of green spilling from the planter boxes out front.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2025

Brought over by the British, the game is mentioned in the diaries of the politician and planter William Bird III in 1704.

From BBC • May 29, 2024

As explained by historian Edmund Morgan, in colonies like Virginia, the planter elite, with huge land grants, occupied a vastly superior position to workers of all colors.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander