How to Use acreage in a Sentence

acreage

noun
  • A large portion of the park's acreage is forest.
  • Along with the acreage came a lodge, pool and staff house.
    — Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • About half of this year’s acreage was burned in the last week.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • In 2004, the acreage burned by mid-July was about the same as now.
    — Mark Thiessen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
  • The state ranks 35th in the nation for state park acreage per capita.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The park has not disclosed its plans for this new acreage.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Bruce and Patricia bought the acreage and built a house there.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2022
  • The fires have grown to be the second- and third-largest fires in terms of acreage burned in state history.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Eli just wants to get the Nebraska acreage owed him by the Homestead Act.
    — Leah Greenblatt and Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The blazes have burned the second-most acreage since 2000 and included the state's two largest on record.
    — Patty Nieberg, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The acreage also could possibly be the site of a new Catholic high school.
    — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2021
  • Part of the reason is a lack of acreage available for wind and solar farms.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The acreage has been zoned commercial for 16 years, Dupree said.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2024
  • The Park Fire was the seventh-largest fire in terms of acreage burned as of Sunday morning.
    — Kelsey Baker, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
  • Silverthorne said the cause of the fire and the acreage burned have not yet been determined.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • The acreage -- about 1,200 square miles -- is comparable to four times the area of New York City.
    — Stella Chan, CNN, 12 July 2021
  • And some areas are seeing far more than a fifth of their acreage burned.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • And much more acreage is going to burn before this is all over.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The acreage, along the Burnt River and near the Snake River, has no city lights, granting clear views of stars.
    — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The damage had seemed massive at the time; now, that acreage amounts to one-tenth of the 3.3 million acres charred this year.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • This year the total acreage charred so far here is 1.4 million acres.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The total acreage is roughly the size of Lake Nona, which the city also annexed in 1994.
    — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
  • As of now, containment and acreage on both fires remain the same.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In April 1945, the acreage went up for sale, and today it is covered with houses.
    — Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Most of that acreage was scorched by the Lilac fire, which burned about 85 acres in a rural area with some homes on large plots of land.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The country has nearly quintupled the acreage of green space in its cities over the past two decades.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2021
  • Half of the acreage could not even muster a qualifying bid.
    — Timothy Fitzgerald, National Review, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The acreage burned is more than double the previous record set two years ago.
    — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The North Carolina Forest Service tracks the acreage of a wildfire on its website.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Nonprofits that manage complementary burns, adding to the acreage treated, have also seen their federal funding frozen.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 14 Feb. 2025

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