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Example sentences for "plantation life"

  • Plantation life at its best had a great deal of beauty and charm.

  • From the book we can give but a few instances of plantation life as such a man made it.

  • Northern energy and capitol flowed in; plantations were bought, and the various industries of plantation life started; and mills and factories were established.

  • Neither by soft pleadings, nor threatenings of sale to plantation life, nor terrors of the lash, can he soften the creature's sympathies, so that the flesh may succumb.

  • It being "ration day," we must describe the serving, that being an interesting phase of plantation life.

  • We knew that we should find nothing in the way of plantation life there, as the estate has long lain idle; and we knew also that no mark was left on the broad acres to tell of the life of colonial days.

  • So pronounced was the development of plantation life that it affected, even controlled, the character of the colony and determined the type of civilization in Virginia.

  • She was one of the last of a type developed through generations of plantation life, and now disappearing with it.

  • An average day of plantation life is thus given: "Old and young, male and female, married and single, drop down together on the clay floor of the cabin each evening with his or her blanket.

  • In regard to the physical comforts of plantation life, he gives the following account: "It is the boast of slaveholders that their slaves enjoy more of the physical comforts of life than the peasantry of any country in the world.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plantation life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    breath away; burning coals; deaf children; father would; hundred days; inches long; instruct them; light cavalry; little lady; negative evidence; offer sacrifice; plantation life; plumb line; powerful fleet; private company; rally them; still preserved; stomach contents; sympathetic magic; things around; things done; worth seeing