How to Use farmland in a Sentence

farmland

noun
  • Part of the farmland is in Hugo; the rest is in May Township.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 30 July 2024
  • My mentee Hannah and I stood on the 6.5 acres of farmland on the southwest edge of campus.
    Karla Salinas, oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • But Ukraine, where about 8% of farmland is out of action because of the war, is already in a bind.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • At the time, the area was fields and farmland, not the tony neighborhood where palm trees and sprawling villas flank the streets.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Still, Ben Shabat wants to take the winding roads through the farmland, to stay on the right side of the court order that bans him from some parts of the area.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The five-acre lot features farmland, a barn, a chicken coop and a small greenhouse.
    Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Thousands of acres of farmland and crops have been ruined in the region of Palamas.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The property spans 88 acres and is filled with rolling hills, walking trails, fields, and farmland.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The Russian pullback from the expanse of farmland on the western bank of the Dnieper River comes as a pivot point in the war.
    Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Or the prairie’s the rare communal space, and the farmland is capitalism.
    In Swing State, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2023
  • At the time, the site was still being used as farmland, and the artifacts came to the surface during ploughing.
    Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In the years since, the farmland over the Ogallala once again flourished as farmers drew from the aquifer to irrigate their fields.
    Coral Davenport, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Over the years, Ormond Beach has been chopped up for farmland and industry.
    David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This is Texas Hill Country, a rugged landscape of mixed forest and farmland.
    Jay Anderson, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The idea is to get as far away as possible from the demands of city life, and the windswept farmland of Chilmark provides the ideal escape.
    Kate Betts, ELLE Decor, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Men have come to the shelter in the morning offering day labor in the farmlands to the east, and Martínez spent two long days picking onions.
    Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
  • To squeeze as much corn as possible from each square meter of farmland.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • So mourning people from around the globe journey to this patch of farmland just outside the red rocks of Sedona.
    Matt Sedensky, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Complete with a complex network of farmland and roads, the discovery is the oldest and largest of its kind in the region.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Wild milkweed used to grow along the Midwest’s fertile farmland.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 July 2024
  • Investors have agreed to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on plots of farmland via video calls.
    John Liu, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Ukrainian farmers have been struggling for months in the face of Russian bombings and seizures of farmland.
    Jared Malsin, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • These flittering finches are adaptable and have learned to live in cities, towns and farmland.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Porter came of age during the farming crisis of the 1980s; neighbors and friends lost their homes and livelihoods as the price of farmland plummeted.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • See them → Viking ruins hid beneath farmland for at least 900 years.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Prairie Band first purchased a piece of the acreage in the small village of Shabbona in 2004 and another swath of farmland two years later.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • But even more development is slated for farmland and open space in the western and northern sides of the city.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 2 June 2024
  • Dust storms whip through farmland that is being invaded by waves of desert sand.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In the midst of a major life change, writer Avery Keatley sends herself to a remote stretch of Italian farmland.
    Avery Keatley, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Now, some 60% of Gaza’s buildings and 65% of its farmland has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
    Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024

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