How to Use plantation in a Sentence

plantation

noun
  • One gecko was found on a tree plantation.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The first act is set on the cotton plantation where Eden is trapped.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2020
  • He was caught at the White House lawn and sent back to the plantation.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • The geckos were found in a cave and perched on rocks near a road, temple and tea plantation.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
  • The best are the cart-in sites, which are large and private, some tucked into a pine plantation.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022
  • But a plantation of saplings won't sequester carbon for decades.
    — Bill Weir, CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
  • And is this plantation near the one my family was enslaved at?
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Back to Noah, who finally has the means to buy the plantation of his dreams.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Berihun hopes to one day buy a coffee plantation back in Ethiopia.
    — Colin Wrenn, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
  • And the site was a former pineapple plantation.
    — AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
  • After work, Heid jumped in his truck and drove to the plantation with a machete.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The oasis is packed with dense thickets of date palms and banana plantations.
    — Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Scott’s first wife had been sold away and sent to a plantation in Arkansas.
    — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Kemp signed the law with six white men by his side and a painting of a former slave plantation behind him.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The couple built their home by hand and, that same year, started the coffee plantation.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In the end, that footballer himself was clearing out a cannabis plantation.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Several episodes of the show were filmed on Ravenel’s plantation.
    — Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The movie is strongest in the modern setting and full of cliches on the plantation.
    — Lindsey Bahr, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Some farmers have been forced to abandon coffee plantations that have become too hot and dry.
    — Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Some pilgrims spent weeks working on plantations.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • For the mocambos, the plantation was hell.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
  • After all, what were the overseas guests of those plantation owners if not the region's first tourists?
    — Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The land became a hemp plantation, as the plant was Kentucky’s number one cash crop at the time.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Ball agreed, and for a number of years Nero took his rations from the plantation smokehouse in beef.
    — Edward Ball, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2023
  • But these high-yield plantations are high risk and can be surprisingly fragile.
    — John Parker, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • By the late 19th century many of those trees had been burned to make way for sugar plantations.
    — Ed Komenda and Audrey McAvoy, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
  • When drought, pests, or forest fires strike, entire monoculture plantations can fail at once.
    — John Parker, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Spain brought the crop to the island in the 1500s and set up massive plantations manned by slaves.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Outside the church are the graves of those who created the plantation’s wealth and macabre history.
    — Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • At the time of purchase, the plantation larder contained 7,000 pounds of pork.
    — Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020

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