How to Use homesteading in a Sentence

homesteading

noun

• And the idea of just the two of them in New York felt to me very much like the energy of homesteading.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• The claim was untrue, and soon the homesteading plan was riddled with problems.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Leopold blamed homesteading—and the sod-busting that went with Westward expansion—for the depletion of game habitat.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2020
• Survival schools in nearly every state teach off-grid living, homesteading, and wilderness skills.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2020
• There are also plenty of dykey haircuts on display, plus evidence of goddess worship, nude homesteading, and polyamory.
  — Sasha Archibald, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2021
• By 1974, this process, known as urban homesteading, was recognized by the federal government.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2021
• The answer likely lies in the increasing trend of home gardening, homesteading, and the desire for produce grown without the use of harmful pesticides and fertilizers (never mind the rising costs of groceries).
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
• For newcomers to homesteading, Bogwalker offers sound advice: Go slow.
  — Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• The evolution from the short-term probes to long-term lunar homesteading — from exploration to expansion — will require a serious commitment of resources and new technologies.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• The news organizations canvassed the two most recent homesteading subdivisions in Kapolei, a region of former sugar cane land where much of Oahu’s single-family housing has been built the past several decades.
  — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 6 Mar. 2022
• Los Angeles’s growth over the following decades coincided with a booming middle class whose aspirations of suburban homesteading trace back to the English countryside.
  — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• Raban's Bad Land is a narrative history of the homesteading movement, illuminating a sliver of American history.
  — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
• The United States expanded in its early years by acquiring or purchasing land, eventually transferring it to state governments or individuals through homesteading or land grants and encouraging settlers to relocate to the west.
  — al, 27 May 2022
• Contemporary notions of private property stem from 17th-century philosopher John Locke’s theory of homesteading, which argued that ownership arises from mixing one’s labor with the natural world in order to create private property.
  — Time, 19 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024