How to Use acre in a Sentence

acre

noun
  • The house sits on two acres of land.
  • They own hundreds of acres of farmland.
  • The problem is the flood, the excess acre-footage that Cameron needs to make his plan work.
    Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Set on nearly three-quarters of an acre with a private dock, the house has five bedrooms.
    E.b. Solomont, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2022
  • One acre-foot of water can meet the consumption needs of about two to three households for about a year.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2022
  • An island of lawn beyond the firepit seating area and a four-car garage complete the one acre of grounds.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • An urban forest is defined as a group of trees with continuous canopy that is greater than one acre.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The district’s charter apportions voting rights on a one-vote-per-acre of land ownership, which is sharply limited.
    Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Spanning eight acres, the riverfront plot has long centered on a broad swath of flood-prone lawn, submerged during Superstorm Sandy.
    Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The number of people a 20-plus acre campus and riding area could accommodate remain unclear.
    Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2022
  • But in invisible hot spots, some covering an acre or two, some just a few square yards, radiation can soar to thousands of times normal ambient levels.
    New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The report identified more than 4,300 forested areas, defined as one acre or more of trees, across Marion County.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2022
  • At the time, the 2.1 million acres were deemed of modest value.
    Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Back in the Bay, the Howard Terminal site in Oakland was 55 acres.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Farmers would have to foot more than 70 percent of the bill — about $23 an acre.
    Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The third, on what is now Barack Obama Boulevard, is a tenth of an acre.
    Wired, 29 July 2022
  • Mesa allows up to 10 chickens on the first half acre or less.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The six-bedroom, five-bathroom house sits on over an acre of land.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • There are roughly 300 ponds, each about an acre in size, across the farms in Martinsville.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Around 300 acres of salt marsh on the west side of the causeway will be protected by the project, the release says.
    Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Crop yield per acre has also been lower this year than the last.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The first acre of the 6.5-acre organic farm will be planted this fall at the Campus of Life.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • The two distinct buildings sit on 25 acres of land with views of the Catskill mountains, a creek, and open-canopied woods.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Two of the parcels are long and skinny—measuring about an acre.
    Wired, 29 July 2022
  • During the winter months, up to 4,100 acres of the land will serve as the terrain for the Mayflower Resort.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • It’s for yards up to 1 acre in size, which is smaller than the other mowers on this list.
    Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022
  • That’s a little over half an acre less than the park proposed in Issue 9.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Estates is a $1.8 billion project set on a prime six-acre site lined with 1.5 acres of beachfront.
    David Kaufman, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
  • An acre of the state's ubiquitous crop can put enough moisture in the air to fill a swimming pool.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Because 39 acres of the Palisades also burned that same night.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2024

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