How to Use acreage in a Sentence

acreage

noun

• A large portion of the park's acreage is forest.
• Locals could not believe that a gringo furiously buying up acreage would simply give it all away.
  — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
• The government has pledged to plant vast acreage of trees and restore peatlands, and to persuade every cook to switch from their beloved gas stoves to electric ones.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• In areas where land is at a premium, closed landfills offer abundant acreage for new development.
  — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
• Around 2010, the farmer who owned the ball field and surrounding acreage decided to sell the property.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• The original deed, dated 1860, was passed down four generations, along with the acreage.
  — Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• Wildfires and unexpected cold snaps have affected the crops, so some vineyards have been forced to cut back on production or replant some or all of their acreage.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
• While the exact acreage burned in the past week remains unclear, officials have promised the affected areas would not be transformed for other purposes.
  — Mehmet Guzel and Zeynep Bilginsoy, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• Instead of continuing the parks standard based on acreage, the council adopted a points value system that will measure the quality of a park, rather than just its size.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2021
• While the acreage and herd sizes have diminished, many things have expanded and improved since Watkins started transforming the farm away from conventional standards.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• About half of this year’s acreage was burned in the last week.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
• In 2004, the acreage burned by mid-July was about the same as now.
  — Mark Thiessen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
• The state ranks 35th in the nation for state park acreage per capita.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The park has not disclosed its plans for this new acreage.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
• Bruce and Patricia bought the acreage and built a house there.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2022
• Eli just wants to get the Nebraska acreage owed him by the Homestead Act.
  — Leah Greenblatt and Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• Part of the reason is a lack of acreage available for wind and solar farms.
  — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• The acreage has been zoned commercial for 16 years, Dupree said.
  — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2024
• The Park Fire was the seventh-largest fire in terms of acreage burned as of Sunday morning.
  — Kelsey Baker, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
• Silverthorne said the cause of the fire and the acreage burned have not yet been determined.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• And some areas are seeing far more than a fifth of their acreage burned.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• The total acreage is roughly the size of Lake Nona, which the city also annexed in 1994.
  — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
• There are a lot of ways to measure size: revenue, number of fish, acreage, etc.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2022
• About 94% of land in Texas is privately owned, and the state ranks 35th in the nation for state park acreage per capita.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• So there is just millions of acreage that people are just not able to respond to calls in time.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
• The resulting acreage can’t be more than 150% of the original.
  — Kate Santich, Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2022
• Stephens suddenly found that his acreage was smack dab in the best place in the world to apply these new techniques.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• That would also be the case for any acreage reserved for the women’s soccer league.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• By last year, the total acreage created had reached 6,840.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• One is Park City Mountain Resort, which has the largest skiable acreage in the nation.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024