How to Use parkland in a Sentence

parkland

noun
  • Vistra had leased the parkland to the state at no cost for nearly 50 years.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The former foundry site will be restored and become park of the parkland along the river bank.
    Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Owned by New York City, the statue sat on public parkland.
    Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Critics say the measure would give the city’s mayor too much power over the use of parkland.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Almost 200 acres of parkland and greenbelts were set aside.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • To make that feasible, the mayor shrank the amount of open parkland in his proposal from 47 acres to 26 acres.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • But some park advocates have pushed for the Shattuck to be returned to parkland.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • There’s also 345 acres of spit parkland, which Mozzi says reminds him of Hyde Park in London.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2022
  • When the wind blows, the salty air is mixed with the smell of pine trees, forests of which crowd the nearby landscape, shading the mansions from the sun, and forming patches of parkland.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 15 June 2023
  • Delaney Park, better known as the Park Strip, was first cleared as a firebreak in 1917 and has served as parkland ever since.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2022
  • The island has been protected as state parkland since 1977.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Much of it runs through national parkland, so traffic is light.
    Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 4 July 2023
  • Set on rolling parkland with mature trees and wildlife, there’s also a playground, walking trails, and a tearoom.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But a walk through the Greenbelt — 2,800 acres of contiguous parkland across the center of the island — convinced her and her husband, who grew up in the borough, to stay.
    Emma Alpern, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The latter two parkland courses offer opportunities to swing away off the tee while The Irish, like Whistling Straits, runs along the lake.
    J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The property sprawls over 46 acres, filled with gardens and ample parkland, which includes a pond with a bridge and gazebo.
    Emmamreynolds1, Robb Report, 14 July 2022
  • The Prince Edward-Gallion parkland, home to pine and hardwood trees, is Virginia's first state forest.
    Joe Studley, NBC News, 23 May 2022
  • And in San Francisco, a new slice of federal parkland has been built right on top of a busy highway tunnel.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 23 July 2022
  • The parkland is set back from the street and surrounded by private parcels with no apparent entrance.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The state’s unspoiled wilderness is far from the only uncrowded US parkland.
    Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This is the Grove of Titans, a roughly three-acre patch of parkland near the California-Oregon border that holds some of the planet’s tallest trees.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • Of course, iconic Central Park is a must with 693 acres of parkland to wander its bridges, boating lake, fountains and beyond.
    Stephanie Orma, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The images proved that wildlife was more connected to the parkland than originally thought.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The unit was in Princess Park Manor, a mid-19th-century Italianate-style complex located on 30 acres of parkland.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 23 June 2023
  • The summit venue, at Bangkok’s main convention center near a vast parkland, was cordoned off with some streets closed to traffic.
    Krutika Pathi, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Congress gave permission to use national parkland near the new school for a new tribal village if the Quileute have to abandon their homes near the coast.
    Ben Tracy, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The West Side has seen an influx of parkland over the past few years, including Little Island, which is rising up out of the water nearby.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The remote road runs through a stretch of sparsely populated beaches, marshes and parkland east of New York City.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 July 2023
  • Nearly every neighborhood in the southern part of the city has less parkland than city policies require.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The estate is currently welcoming visitors to take a tour of the parkland.
    The Editors, Town & Country, 14 Dec. 2022

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