How to Use cotton gin in a Sentence
cotton gin
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The company bought the land, the site of an old cotton gin, from a farmer last year.
—Ian James, azcentral, 29 Nov. 2019
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The aluminum plant is proposed on the site of an old cotton gin.
—Ian James, azcentral, 7 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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The whole business of the cotton gin is just a distraction to ignore this plain fact.
—New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
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The cotton gin launched a thousand pro-slavery polemics.
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2010
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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
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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
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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
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The boy’s body was later found, tethered to a cotton gin fan, in the Tallahatchie River.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
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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
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The building was part of a large complex that produced cotton gin equipment.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 18 June 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Belt & Main development is built on the original site of an old cotton gin called Big Red.
—Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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