How to Use the land in a Sentence

the land

noun
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  • 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
  • At the time, the land was at the end of an old dirt farm lane off Gist Road, way outside of town.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2024
  • 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
  • When Jin-su returns to the land of the living, he is haunted by hell.
    — Kayti Burt, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The family that had owned and farmed the land for decades had moved to Reykjavík, three and a half hours away.
    — Paige McClanahan, TIME, 20 June 2024
  • The people from the cities were seen as ruining the lives of those who were people of the land in the country.
    — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 9 Mar. 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
  • There’s only one major restriction to the use of the land.
    — Sarah Rappaport, Fortune, 10 May 2024
  • There are 27 Native tribes with historic ties to the land, according to the park.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
  • 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
  • Under the purchase agreement, the land is set to be sold for $14.6 million.
    — Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The region is prone to wildfires and much of the land is covered in forests, but Kolesov said something has changed.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 2 Mar. 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
  • Thursday Take a Halloween hike to the land bridge at Phil Hardberger.
    — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Many traditional adobe homes in the area were impacted by the ash and sediment, not to mention the severe impact of the floods on the land and cattle owned by local ranchers too.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024

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