"cotton" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I started chopping cotton when I was 10, she told Sports Illustrated in 1975.
- One of 29 children - her father married twice - she chopped cotton in the field with her mother.
- You're going to be chopping cotton when this is over, nig!
- To make ends meet, he had to earn his living in the fields chopping cotton, picking grapes or cutting spinach.
- We chopped cotton and all that stuff.
- From the age of seven, Janis spent her summers chopping cotton, and autumns helping the family pick cotton.
- Waters grew up a bright, bold young man, looking for a way out of a lifetime of chopping cotton.
- He chopped cotton in rural Mississippi.
- A tiny class of white plantation owners held poor blacks in economic serfdom, chopping and picking cotton, nearly always in debt.
- Her parents were laborers on the same plantation where they had been slaves, and Sarah labored beside them, chopping and picking cotton.
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