How to Use the land in a Sentence

the land

noun
  • Buy American has been the law of the land since the 1930s.
    USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Ready to plan an epic trip to the land of fire and Iceland?
    Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2023
  • But the boom is taking a toll on the people who live on the land.
    Cate Brown, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In the Amazon, farmers want to steal the land from the natives.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Don’t forget to factor in the cost of plans, the purchase price of the land and so forth.
    Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • What should also be listened to are the dogs, the wildlife, and the land itself.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • For the very first time, Wallen has a chart double in the land Down Under.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Try to learn from the original people of the land, too.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But heat waves like July’s aren’t just confined to the land.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Gentry surveyed the land for all of the fossils present, from shells to shark teeth.
    Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Since then, crews have approached the land only to secure the house, Leto said.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • On top of this shaking of the land, in the past few days large cracks have started to form in and around Grindavík.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The scenery is meant to approximate what the land might have looked like to those sold down the river.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The sticking point may be how much of the land the Heat will accept for overflow parking.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Hollywood is no longer viewed as the land of glitzy and glamorous jobs.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Hamas' killing of 1,200 people, most of them civilians, has left scars on the land and its people.
    Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • In addition to providing the loan, the city also sold the land to Cal-Coast.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • For years, online shopping was the land of falling prices.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Care New England purchased the buildings in 2013, but the land, and what it can be used for, is still controlled by the trust.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Their attachment to the land is at least as strong as that of Jews who made aliyah in the past century.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Cincinnati used proceeds from the land sales to fund its streetcar project.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
  • San Francisco is a city known for its fine dining, and this spring, even the land itself is on the menu.
    John Blackstone, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Tufts of beige grass poked from the dark surface of the land, like rogue patches of hair on an elephant’s wrinkled back.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2023
  • At the top was the Queiroz family, whose members owned much of the land in São Miguel, lived in concrete houses and ran the Catholic church.
    Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • He’s known to fire off a vicious tweet (or whatever they’re called in the land of X) to call out the fearmongers.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Shacks are perched on cliffs with little vegetation to hold the land in place.
    NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Jenkins said deputies are searching a 15-mile area between the land and water.
    Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Tribes across the Great Lakes region are often referred to as the original stewards of the land.
    Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The city purchased the land to build Harborside more than 20 years ago as a way to boost recreational options in the area.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Some families here still live off the land, selling fish, fruits and vegetables by the road to make ends meet.
    Tiare Tuuhia, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023

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