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How to use planter in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun

Planter means one who plants something. Example: “This planter is made of redwood.”

Examples of planter by meaning

nounOne who plants something.

  • She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, page 100
  • De Rocco, the compulsive rose planter, had surreptitiously placed the rose there.2014, Andrea di Robilant, Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
  • Chelmsford station is looking smarter after the local Community Rail Partnership and Rotary Club members installed 12 large planters on the platforms.2023 February 8, “Network News: News in Brief: Planters at Chelmsford”, in RAIL, number 976, page 20

More sentences with planter

  • This planter is made of redwood.From the entry redwood
  • A particular incident involving large influx of Fuzhounese into Sarawak as planters was worthy of mention.2013, Lee Khoon Choy, Golden Dragon And Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia, Singapore: World…. From the entry Fuzhounese
  • A group of intrepid church planters apparently sent from the planet Throg are meeting in Albert Square.2001, Jeff Lucas, “Revival in Walford”, in Lucas on Life, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: Authentic Lifestyle, published 2003, →ISBN, page…. From the entry grinningly
  • Color is used sparingly and in sub-floral arrangements added in pots and planters.1974, Stores - Volume 56, page 11. From the entry sub-floral
  • "Nevile and I, and Nevile's Ex, and some Malayan planter who's home on leave."1944, Agatha Christie, Towards Zero. From the entry ex
  • Other planters put their land into the growing of vegetables and fruits, especially peaches.1937, United States. Farm Security Administration, Flint River Farms, Georgia, page 2. From the entry dayhand
  • That's what the planter calls a bomb?2017, Ujjwala Walia, “The Timer Ticks” (chapter 5), in Zahana, Mumbai: BecomeShakespeare, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry pen drive
  • Ancestrals were planters and irrigators, but more cosmopolitan.2015, Allan Hayes, John Blom, Carol Hayes, Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni. From the entry ancestral
  • Low-country planters sent slaves to grow rice, a many-handed task performed in the watery provinces of thousand-acre empires.2010, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry many-handed
  • Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders.2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 9. From the entry smallholder
  • An eighteenth-century planter in Virginia complained: "My people seem to be quite dead-hearted and either cannot or will not work."1981, David G. Sweet, Gary B. Nash, Struggle and Survival in Colonial America, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry dead-hearted
  • Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28. From the entry harrow
  • In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5).1962, T’ung-tsu Ch’ü, Local Government in China under the Ch'ing, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 299. From the entry hsien
  • Here are ingenious tools, lovely vases, double-duty planters, practical and stylish gardenwear—in short, all the newest and best for up-to-the-minute gardeners.1955 April, Holiday, volume 17, number 4, page 147. From the entry gardenwear
  • Depressions would produce modest efforts to diversify the economy but as soon as tobacco prices rose again, planters returned to “sotweed making”.2010, Henry Miller, “The Lure of Sotweed: Tobacco and Maryland History”, in Slackwater: Oral Folk History of Southern Maryland, volume 3. From the entry sot-weed
  • Slave narratives and planters’ records reveal that an owner faced with a sick slave was likely to believe the illness was feigned.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 45. From the entry malingering
  • When the workers rejected these terms, some planters threatened to evict them, and others unroofed cottages and turned estate cattle through the workers’ provision grounds.2006, Swithin Wilmot, “'We not slave again': Enslaved Jamaicans in Early Freedom, 1838-1865”, in Marc Kleijwegt, editor, The Faces of…. From the entry unroof
  • Although Duerson was not among the largest slave-owners, he came from an old Virginia planter family that had held slaves for several generations.2005 November 27, Jill Watts, “'Hattie McDaniel'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry slave-owner
  • The protagonist, a young Scots girl, is kidnapped by "spiriters" who sell their victims as bond slaves to planters and farmers in America.2002, Lee Galda, Bernice E. Cullinan, Cullinan and Galda's Literature and the Child - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 216. From the entry spiriter
  • The colonial whites had, as a result, little loyalty towards the territory, recognising a common interest as planters or merchants but not as Saint-Dominguois.1985, David Nicholls, Haiti In Caribbean Context, Springer, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry Saint-Dominguois
  • He gave the estimate of one planter who believed that one winkle was able to destroy a bushel of oysters in a single hour.1931, Bureau of Fisheries Document, volume 922, page 217. From the entry winkle
  • The planters, he explained in a letter to Lincoln, would accept emancipation by ukase in preference to being compelled to enact it themselves in a new constitution.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 704. From the entry ukase
  • Kitchens turn out gallons of soup joumou, a pumpkin soup once enjoyed only by rich French merchants and planters, but claimed as their own by former slaves after independence.1988 December 9–15, WQ, “Christmas tradition in Haiti”, in Richard M. Gaines, editor, The Boston Phoenix, volume XVII, number 50, Boston…. From the entry soup joumou

Meaning of planter

  1. noun One who plants something.
  2. noun Any of the early English or Scottish settlers who were given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
  3. noun Any member of a similar landed class of (often wealthy) farm owners elsewhere, such as plantation owners whose lands are worked by farm workers, wage slaves, or slaves.

Full definition of planter

Questions about planter in a sentence

How do you use planter in a sentence?
Planter is used as a noun. For example: “This planter is made of redwood.”
What is a short sentence with planter?
“This planter is made of redwood.”
What does planter mean?
Planter means one who plants something.

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