How to Use acre in a Sentence

acre

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  • The house sits on two acres of land.
  • They own hundreds of acres of farmland.
  • The compound spans over an acre and combines two parcels on a corner lot.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The house has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and sits on just under an acre of land.
    — Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The lot is less than a sixth of an acre but manages to squeeze in a variety of outdoor spaces.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The figure includes more than 625 million acres of ocean that was protected from offshore oil and gas drilling.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The third of an acre site was used well after his interment for extended family members and those associated with the large households that survived him.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Each of its 22 castaway-chic bungalows is nestled on its own acre of beachfront or forest, offering the ultimate privacy.
    — Kris Fordham, CNN, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Located on the shore of Lake Geneva and set in 10 acres of sprawling greens, the renowned hotel and spa sits right across from iconic Mont Blanc.
    — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Nestled among 100 acres of wetlands in Snake River Canyon, there are six pools fed by hot springs scattered throughout the park, including a kids-only pool.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The problem is the flood, the excess acre-footage that Cameron needs to make his plan work.
    — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
  • At the time, the 2.1 million acres were deemed of modest value.
    — Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Back in the Bay, the Howard Terminal site in Oakland was 55 acres.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Farmers would have to foot more than 70 percent of the bill — about $23 an acre.
    — Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The third, on what is now Barack Obama Boulevard, is a tenth of an acre.
    — Wired, 29 July 2022
  • Mesa allows up to 10 chickens on the first half acre or less.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Fire-Rescue tweeted that the fire, dubbed the Batavia fire, had been stopped at about an acre.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The six-bedroom, five-bathroom house sits on over an acre of land.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • There are roughly 300 ponds, each about an acre in size, across the farms in Martinsville.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Around 300 acres of salt marsh on the west side of the causeway will be protected by the project, the release says.
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Crop yield per acre has also been lower this year than the last.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The first acre of the 6.5-acre organic farm will be planted this fall at the Campus of Life.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • The two distinct buildings sit on 25 acres of land with views of the Catskill mountains, a creek, and open-canopied woods.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Two of the parcels are long and skinny—measuring about an acre.
    — Wired, 29 July 2022
  • During the winter months, up to 4,100 acres of the land will serve as the terrain for the Mayflower Resort.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • It’s for yards up to 1 acre in size, which is smaller than the other mowers on this list.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022
  • That’s a little over half an acre less than the park proposed in Issue 9.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Estates is a $1.8 billion project set on a prime six-acre site lined with 1.5 acres of beachfront.
    — David Kaufman, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
  • An acre of the state's ubiquitous crop can put enough moisture in the air to fill a swimming pool.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2022
  • An acre-foot could supply about three households for a year, though much of the water goes to farms.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022

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