How to Use cotton gin in a Sentence

cotton gin

noun
  • The aluminum plant is proposed on the site of an old cotton gin.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The company bought the land, the site of an old cotton gin, from a farmer last year.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The whole business of the cotton gin is just a distraction to ignore this plain fact.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The building was part of a large complex that produced cotton gin equipment.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 18 June 2020
  • His body had been weighted down by a 75-pound fan from a cotton gin attached to his neck by barbed wire.
    — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The men took Till out of the house and his body was later found in the river, held down by a cotton gin fan.
    — Lolly Bowean, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Across the street are the railroad tracks that run through Bentonia; next door sits an old cotton gin.
    — Leah Willingham, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2021
  • To get rid of Emmett's body, his killers strapped a 75-pound cotton gin fan to his neck with barbed wire.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 25 July 2019
  • There were only three stores in the community, along with one school, a post office and a cotton gin.
    — Arluther Lee, ajc, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Its timeworn streets give way to boutiques, a general store, and even a restaurant housed in an old cotton gin.
    — Lauren Jones, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
  • For the cotton study, this includes tracking impacts from the farming stage to the point where lint leaves the cotton gin.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The kidnappers tortured and shot him, weighted his body down with a cotton gin fan and dumped him into the river.
    — Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Frisco was home to many farmers, who built several cotton gins and grain elevators.
    — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Arson was suspected since another fire began that evening at the cotton gin owned by the mayor.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But the cotton gin, carriage, car and computer all promised to do previously human tasks at faster speed.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • But the cotton gin, carriage, car and computer all promised to do previously human tasks at faster speed.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • His body was tethered with barbed wire to a cotton gin fan and submerged in the Tallahatchie River.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The boy’s body was later found, tethered to a cotton gin fan, in the Tallahatchie River.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
  • His body was found three days later in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down with a cotton gin fan tied to his body with barbed wire.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Enslaved people in America were partly enslaved by the cotton gin, as well as by people.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Some changes replace one kind of labor (the calculator), and some disrupt a whole industry (the cotton gin).
    — Kai-Fu Lee, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
  • He was tortured and later shot, with his body found weighted down by a cotton gin fan in the Tallahatchie River.
    — Jeff Amy, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2019
  • Till supposedly whistled at a white woman and was found in the river four days later with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck.
    — Carmen K. Sisson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2020
  • As night turned to day, Till was shot above the right ear and his body crudely delivered to the river, where he was found days later weighed down by a cotton gin fan.
    — Arluther Lee, ajc, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Many of the first businesses, including a motel, ice plant, water works and cotton gin, were built by the King Ranch.
    — ExpressNews.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • His body was discovered in the Tallahatchie River, with a 74-pound cotton gin fan barb-wired to his neck.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 7 June 2020
  • The Belt & Main development is built on the original site of an old cotton gin called Big Red.
    — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • His body, brutally beaten, was found days later in the Tallahatchie River with a heavy cotton gin fan tied on his neck with barbed wire.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2022
  • He was tortured and shot, a 75-pound fan from a cotton gin was tied around his neck, and he was thrown into the Tallahatchie River.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Till was abducted and killed, and his body was recovered days later from the Tallahatchie River, where it had been weighed down by a cotton gin.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2021

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