13 sentences with 'cotton'

Example sentences and phrases with the word cotton and other words derived from it.

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• « The cat was playing with a ball of cotton thread. »

• « The rest of the cowboy's outfit is all cotton, wool, and leather. »

• « I bought an organic cotton shirt because it is more eco-friendly. »

• « The rest of the cowboy's attire is all cotton, wool and leather. »

• « India produced vast quantities of precious commodities, including cotton, spices and narcotics. »

• « Raw goods (e.g. sugar, tobacco, cotton, coffee, etc.) were processed in America and shipped to Europe. »

• « The outline of the eyelids should be blurred with a little cotton wool, rolled on the end of a stick, to make it softer. »

• « Also, a relatively small part of the slave trade soon included the importation of slaves to work first the tobacco fields and then the cotton fields further south. »

• « What I recommend for those who ever visit Egypt, is to try to eat the typical dishes, buy cotton fabrics that are cheap and of very good quality and fantastic colours. »

• « In a striking parallel, the efficiency of cotton production increased to keep pace with textile manufacturing in Britain, despite the absence of major new technologies, apart from the invention of the cotton gin in 1794. »

• « This efficient increase in cotton production was due to the application of increasing degrees of brutality, as slaves were forced to pick and process cotton at unprecedented speed, spurred on by crude violence at the hands of overseers. »

• « The other raw material, cotton, which played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, was available through slave labour in the American South and from weaker states such as Egypt (which gained virtual independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1833). »

• « Although they had little reason to consider it, industrial workers in the north of England lived in a state of misery that was linked to an even worse one on the other side of the Atlantic: the slave-based cotton economy of the American South that provided the raw material. »

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