How to Use farmland in a Sentence

farmland

noun
  • Part of the farmland is in Hugo; the rest is in May Township.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 30 July 2024
  • About 6,500 acres of farmland would need to go through this test.
    Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The area, which is private and set back from the road, was farmland at one time.
    Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The town has farmland roots, known as the ‘hay-shipping capital of the world’ back in the 1920s.
    Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Not to mention that the value of farmland just went up and up.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • The family owned about 400 acres of farmland around the bogs.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2022
  • At the edge of the village lie acres and acres of farmland tilled into rich black earth.
    Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
  • My mentee Hannah and I stood on the 6.5 acres of farmland on the southwest edge of campus.
    Karla Salinas, oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • But Ukraine, where about 8% of farmland is out of action because of the war, is already in a bind.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The manor house is located at the top of a hill with sweeping views of the forested farmland.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2022
  • At the time, the area was fields and farmland, not the tony neighborhood where palm trees and sprawling villas flank the streets.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Next, with 17 mentions, were concerns about the loss of farmland.
    Dan Gearino, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Still, Ben Shabat wants to take the winding roads through the farmland, to stay on the right side of the court order that bans him from some parts of the area.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The five-acre lot features farmland, a barn, a chicken coop and a small greenhouse.
    Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Without those crops, Del Bosque was not able to hire about 100 people to work on his farmland.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 4 June 2022
  • Thousands of acres of farmland and crops have been ruined in the region of Palamas.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The property spans 88 acres and is filled with rolling hills, walking trails, fields, and farmland.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The Russian pullback from the expanse of farmland on the western bank of the Dnieper River comes as a pivot point in the war.
    Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Or the prairie’s the rare communal space, and the farmland is capitalism.
    In Swing State, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2023
  • And for the first time since 2020, more farmers expect farmland values to go down rather than up.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
  • At the time, the site was still being used as farmland, and the artifacts came to the surface during ploughing.
    Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In the years since, the farmland over the Ogallala once again flourished as farmers drew from the aquifer to irrigate their fields.
    Coral Davenport, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Over the years, Ormond Beach has been chopped up for farmland and industry.
    David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This is Texas Hill Country, a rugged landscape of mixed forest and farmland.
    Jay Anderson, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The idea is to get as far away as possible from the demands of city life, and the windswept farmland of Chilmark provides the ideal escape.
    Kate Betts, ELLE Decor, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Men have come to the shelter in the morning offering day labor in the farmlands to the east, and Martínez spent two long days picking onions.
    Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
  • When the movie set went up in the farmland, Hartley saw how thousands of people thronged on Great Road, trying to catch a glimpse of the action.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • To squeeze as much corn as possible from each square meter of farmland.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Officials in India—where the river, one of the world’s largest, is called the Brahmaputra—worry the dam will disrupt flows of irrigation water and silt that nourish farmland.
    Byscience News Staff, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Villagers dressed as cranes, roosters and mythical lions pose for portraits standing amid crops or in fallow farmland.
    Oscar Holland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025

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