Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The two crops are cultivated together, and both are grown on the edge of the jungle, for the sake of the wood, which is burned in the preparation of the gambir.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie

The gambir does not grow taller than eight feet. 

From The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands by Anonymous

After leaving the town we went along a good road for some distance, with cottages and clearings on either side, until we came to a pepper and gambir plantation.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie

The greatest height attained by the gambir plant is eight feet. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

Pepper plantations are always to be found near a plantation of the gambir plant, as the former are always manured with the boiled leaves of the latter.

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida