9 sentences with 'coffee'
Example sentences and phrases with the word coffee and other words derived from it.
• « Coffee (from the Turkish kahvé, coffee plant seed) also has its prehistory, and the coffee houses of 18th century London remain archetypes of literary, political and social centres where dialogue sparkled under caffeine stimulation. »
• « Caffeine, present in coffee, is an alkaloid that in moderate proportions soothes some aches and pains, reduces fatigue, improves coronary circulation and promotes diuresis; in excessive quantities, it causes very severe damage. »
• « We could imagine the ocean as a giant coffee cup where lumps of sugar (ice), soaked in poisons, slowly melt. Thus, drifting like blocks of ice, the ecological future of the regions that until recently were considered the least polluted is sailing. If the tango is right, perhaps the last coffee has been served for the polar ecosystems. »
• « Because of the enormous wealth that was generated not from gold and silver per se, but from commodities such as sugar, tobacco and coffee (as well as luxury goods such as spices that had always been important), the states of Europe were willing to constantly fight among themselves, as well as to perpetrate one of the greatest crimes in history: the Atlantic slave trade. »
• « Raw goods (e.g. sugar, tobacco, cotton, coffee, etc.) were processed in America and shipped to Europe. »
• « More than 90% of the slaves were sent to the Caribbean or Brazil because sugar cultivation, as well as coffee cultivation and mining in Brazil, required constant replacement as slaves perished from exhaustion or injury. »
• « Tea grown in India became cheap enough for even workers to drink on a daily basis; so did South American coffee on the continent. »
• « In other cases, it took the form of "semi-slavery" as on the island of Java where the Dutch imposed coffee and spice quotas on the villages. »
• « Indeed, six days after her first birthday, she took her first wobbly steps from the coffee table to her mother's outstretched arms. »