How to Use acre in a Sentence

acre

noun
  • The house sits on two acres of land.
  • They own hundreds of acres of farmland.
  • 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 | Mkates@al.com, 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
  • An island of lawn beyond the firepit seating area and a four-car garage complete the one acre of grounds.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Because 39 acres of the Palisades also burned that same night.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Wildfires in Oregon have burned more than 1 million acres since the start of the season.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The lot, spanning roughly three-quarters of an acre, has a guesthouse and a pool.
    Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 2 June 2022
  • Annual rents were doubled to $3 per acre for the first two years; $5 for the third through eighth years; and $15 thereafter.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The fire charred 45 acres before firefighters were able to stop the flames’ forward progress.
    Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 26 June 2024
  • The two-story, 500-square-foot tree house, on seven acres of private woodland, is accessed by a spiral staircase that wraps around a Douglas fir tree.
    Maggie Fuller, AFAR Media, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The five-bedroom property sits on nearly 2.8 acres at the southern terminus of Medicine Bow Road with a main residence, guest house, and two additional living spaces.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024

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