How to Use parkland in a Sentence
parkland
noun-
Just keep one strip of parkland up in the air and push the rest out over the water.
— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Jan. 2021 -
Vistra had leased the parkland to the state at no cost for nearly 50 years.
— Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The public parkland is leased to Wild Rivers, which shares part of its revenue with the city of Irvine.
— Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024 -
The Knights Golf Course is a 7,000 yard parkland layout with ponds, bunkers, and mature trees adding to the scenery and the challenge.
— Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2021 -
Planning is set to start on the new city parkland later this year.
— Steve Brown, Dallas News, 29 July 2021 -
The former foundry site will be restored and become park of the parkland along the river bank.
— Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022 -
But the county says the record is clear: the Ponds is not technically parkland.
— Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 14 Apr. 2021 -
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 -
Outdoors lovers and civic groups bemoaned the loss of parkland that would be required.
— Victor Mather, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020 -
The $6 billion, 55-acre project would include new towers, roads and bridges and parkland.
— Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2021 -
The Middle Mountain hikes do not enter the state parkland.
— Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024 -
Three Rivers' parkland includes 43 lakes and more than 30 miles of river.
— Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021 -
Almost 200 acres of parkland and greenbelts were set aside.
— Steve Brown, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023 -
Like the Virginia duo Palmyra playing with the parkland’s red and white oaks behind them, or a quartet called t.l.a.o.o.
— David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020 -
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 -
The fund is regularly tapped for the planting of new trees around the city, the Woody Branch project marks the first time that it has been used to acquire parkland.
— Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021 -
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 -
The borough’s endless parklands had not yet been cut up by highways.
— Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024 -
The play is parkland, with mature trees framing broad, sweeping fairways and wall-to-wall grass.
— Ken Van Vechten, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019 -
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 -
My go-to place to stay is the Inn and Spa at Cedar Falls, with overnight rooms, cottages, yurts and cabins to rent, all surrounded by parkland.
— Susan Glaser, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2020 -
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 bridge will be 150 feet wide, adding more than half an acre of parkland and native vegetation.
— Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 23 Apr. 2020 -
Here’s why: The drainpipe, Boston’s biggest water-and-sewer project in a decade, would pass through a strip of state parkland, along the Charles.
— BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021 -
In 1945, the NPS took the property on as national parkland.
— Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021 -
More than 20 years ago a deliberate effort was made to open up the parkland.
— Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024 -
Varieties of native oak, maple, aspen, and alder put on a spectacle this time of year, particularly in our parklands.
— Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024 -
The first round of surveying, in May, also queried residents about amending the city charter to allow the city to lease public parklands to commercial entities for 55 years, up from the current 25-year allowance.
— Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
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