How to Use acre in a Sentence

acre

noun

• The house sits on two acres of land.
• They own hundreds of acres of farmland.
• An acre-foot could supply about three households for a year, though much of the water goes to farms.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022
• An average household uses one-half to one acre-foot of water a year.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022
• Second-story balconies overlook the landscaped grounds complete with a swimming pool and tennis court on over an acre.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• Last fall his grandson, who now owns the farm, harvested 270 bushels an acre on the same field where the accident occurred.
  — WSJ, 23 June 2022
• Our town needs to control our destiny and avoid commercialization of our one-house-per-acre unique residential town.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022
• Companies are starting to require thinning efforts that can cost up to $2,800 per acre.
  — AZCentral.com, 22 June 2022
• Completed just before the pandemic, the property sits on three-fourths of an acre and offers ocean views from nearly every corner.
  — David Kaufman, Robb Report, 14 July 2022
• Set on a lush acre, the property offers space for year-round outdoor entertaining, plus access to surfing and hiking locales.
  — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 9 June 2022
• If the farmers adopted climate-friendly techniques on a few acres of their farmland, PepsiCo would pay them $10 to $40 per acre for a year.
  — New York Times, 9 July 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 | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Wildfires in Oregon have burned more than 1 million acres since the start of the season.
  — Meira Gebel, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• Annual rents were doubled to $3 per acre for the first two years; $5 for the third through eighth years; and $15 thereafter.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
• Set on 14 acres at the base of Thunder Mountain, the site is open from dawn to dusk for visitors of all faiths for prayer, healing and meditation.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
• Each one takes years of fine-tuning and revisions, a process that is labor-intensive and challenging to scale in a way that would serve the 47 million acres of wheat fields draped across the nation.
  — Ryan Kellman, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024