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How to use milpa in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word milpa? Here are some examples.

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He grew up working on the milpa, and she did the typical household chores of tending the home garden, sewing and cooking.
In the milpa, the maize is associated with at least two other plants: the bean and the squash.
As the land has begun to produce again, Mr. León has reintroduced the traditional milpa, a plot where corn, climbing beans and squash grow together.
The next day, Pedro left us to clean his milpa.
The milpa must adapt to the characteristics and limits of the place where it is grown and humans try to compensate using innovations and different combinations.
Examples from Classical Literature
If the savages have extended their milpa clearings since our visit, the falling trees have probably spoiled these walls by now.
The first work undertaken by the twins was the clearing of a milpa or cornfield.
The agente rode with us in the morning quite a league upon our road, to a place which he was clearing for a milpa.
It was discovered by an Indian, who had cut a piece of virgin bush with the object of making a milpa.
In addition to one specimen taken along the road, another was taken from a fence post in a milpa on the same night.
The mound was discovered by the Indians when cutting down virgin bush to make a milpa, or corn plantation.
At Sanact are two buildings, which stand in a milpa, or cornfield.
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