How to Use acreage in a Sentence

acreage

noun
  • A large portion of the park's acreage is forest.
  • 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
  • Eli just wants to get the Nebraska acreage owed him by the Homestead Act.
    Leah Greenblatt and Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • And some areas are seeing far more than a fifth of their acreage burned.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The total acreage is roughly the size of Lake Nona, which the city also annexed in 1994.
    Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
  • There are a lot of ways to measure size: revenue, number of fish, acreage, etc.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2022
  • About 94% of land in Texas is privately owned, and the state ranks 35th in the nation for state park acreage per capita.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • So there is just millions of acreage that people are just not able to respond to calls in time.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
  • The resulting acreage can’t be more than 150% of the original.
    Kate Santich, Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2022
  • Stephens suddenly found that his acreage was smack dab in the best place in the world to apply these new techniques.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • By last year, the total acreage created had reached 6,840.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
  • One is Park City Mountain Resort, which has the largest skiable acreage in the nation.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The other problem: What to do with its vast acreage of warehouse space if there’s a slowdown?
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 June 2022
  • As of Wednesday, the acreage burned is more than 600% higher than the current year-to-date average.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Pfalz is the second largest region (by acreage) and wines from this region tend to be a little less acidic.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Wildfires have already burned a full year’s worth of acreage in Canada so far this year.
    Brandon Miller, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • After more than 60 years, the business and surrounding acreage are selling at auction at the end of the month.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The project is about 80% built based on total acreage, a spokesperson for the developer said.
    Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2023
  • Back-of-the-napkin math suggests acreage of windshields out on the American road has tripled.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Although there are refuges in all 50 states, Alaska has the vast majority — 80% — of the refuge acreage.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Lawns comprise 44 million acres in the U.S. alone, more than double the acreage of all our national parks combined.
    Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 9 Oct. 2024
  • And in fact, research shows that due to our influence on the climate, wildfire has been consuming more and more Golden State acreage in recent decades.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2024

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