How to Use cotton gin in a Sentence

cotton gin

noun

• The company bought the land, the site of an old cotton gin, from a farmer last year.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 29 Nov. 2019
• The aluminum plant is proposed on the site of an old cotton gin.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 7 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• The whole business of the cotton gin is just a distraction to ignore this plain fact.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• The cotton gin launched a thousand pro-slavery polemics.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2010
• From the cotton gin to the mobile phone, the U.S. has produced some of the most useful inventions of the past three centuries.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The boy’s body was later found, tethered to a cotton gin fan, in the Tallahatchie River.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
• The men beat Till, put a bullet in his head, tied a 75-pound cotton gin to his neck and threw him into the Tallahatchie River.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• The building was part of a large complex that produced cotton gin equipment.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 18 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Holmes’ parents opened the Blue Front in 1948 to serve hot meals to townspeople who labored at the cotton gin or on the surrounding farms.
  — Timothy Ivy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2021
• The Belt & Main development is built on the original site of an old cotton gin called Big Red.
  — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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 youth’s brutalized body was later pulled from a river, where it had been weighted down with a cotton gin fan.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 July 2021
• 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
• He was brutally beaten, forced to strip naked, shot in the face, and then tied with barbed wire to the fan of a cotton gin and thrown into the Tallahatchie River.
  — CBS News, 25 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The cotton gin, patented in the late 18th century by Eli Whitney, was used to separate cotton fiber from the plant's seeds.
  — Zachary Kiesch, ABC News, 5 June 2021
• 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
• The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the printing press, the chronometer, the cotton gin, the steam engine and the water wheel are among the many examples.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• In the article, the men admitted beating Till and tossing him in a river near Money, weighed down with a 74-pound cotton gin fan.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Days after the 14-year-old was killed, his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, where it was tossed after being weighted down with a cotton gin fan.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2022

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