How to Use rancho in a Sentence

rancho

noun

• In 1896, Griffith ceded most of the rancho to the city of Los Angeles, which turned it into one of the country’s largest urban parks.
  — Neal J. Leitereg, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2020
• Baldwin had become smitten with the rancho, which was lush and green due to the artesian wells that ran beneath its rolling pastures.
  — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• May held on and fought everyone from settlers to railway bosses to the Supreme Court in an attempt to keep any public road or rail from crossing through the rancho.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2022
• For nearly a century the 6,700-square-foot house was the headquarters of a working rancho that grew smaller and smaller as it was divided up and sold off.
  — Jennifer Rice Epstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 10 July 2017
• The land was part of a former rancho dotted with adobes and cattle until it was divided into individual parcels in the 1880s.
  — Mary Forgione, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The single estate agaves were harvested from the Camarena family’s rancho La Ladera.
  — Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
• During California’s rancho period, the area was known as Cordero.
  — Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• During California’s rancho period, the area was known as Cordero.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Make adobe bricks, stamp leather, dip candles, corn husk dolls, churn butter, and participate in other rancho-era activities.
  — Lisa Herendeen, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
• Calling myself a Chicano didn’t vibe with my rancho libertarian ethos, which felt the term was an antiquated one only leftists used.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• The historic rancho adobe haciendas also survive today as museums.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2019

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024