How to Use hacienda in a Sentence

hacienda

noun
  • The scene at the hacienda seemed straight out of the 1700s.
    Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
  • But the old hacienda, the homes and the winery buildings still stood.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Jack lived in a grand hacienda, and that’s where the editing rooms were set up.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Back at the hacienda, the boys are teaching the dog a trick and ask after their father.
    Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The house is a modern hacienda farmhouse and comes with a 837-square-foot guest house.
    Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 28 May 2018
  • There is also the option to stay back at our hacienda and relax by the pool.
    National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • The winged wraith flew over the hacienda of Don Chico Vasquez, a man unimpressed by the folklore surrounding the lake.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018
  • El Secreto de Rosita is as easy on the tongue as the eyes, a hacienda full of good taste.
    Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • Tour the historic hacienda with a personal guide, then snorkel and float on the canal that connects the two cenotes.
    National Geographic, 31 May 2019
  • Renée Zellweger is ready to part with her hacienda-style L.A. home.
    Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Even now, though, El Secreto de Rosita is as easy on the tongue as the eyes, a hacienda full of good taste.
    Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The 6,864-square-foot house is a modern Santa Fe-style hacienda.
    Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 21 May 2018
  • There are six suites within the main lodge as well as 12 villas and one five-bedroom hacienda.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The 3,000-square-foot, two-story house is set behind the high protective walls of an old hacienda.
    Elisabeth Malkin, ELLE Decor, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Everyone who visits the Aragua state should try it and go to explore its hacienda.
    Paula Móvil, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • That saw an elder Chente riding a horse past the front of a hacienda as elegant as ever.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The former Hearst estate centers on a hacienda-style home dating to the early 1930s.
    Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 29 June 2019
  • This 1940 four-bedroom hacienda stands by a year-round creek in Topanga Canyon, surrounded by coastal live oaks.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Guests can earn and redeem Hilton Honors points while staying in one of nearly two dozen hacienda-style villas and rooms.
    Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • This is a Cadillac among guest ranches, with 43 luxury rooms and suites (plus a five-bedroom hacienda) that attracts guests from around the world.
    Janet Fullwood, The Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Our 3,000-square-foot hacienda had a large living room, a master bedroom, a huge screened in porch (with a heavenly swing), and a private plunge pool.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2018
  • The hacienda-style property is set on 45 acres of olive groves and gardens and has only 49 suites, each their own Spanish-style casita.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 20 July 2021
  • In courtyards around the hacienda, women carved the skin from the bones and hung it like underwear to dry, men etched out internal organs and tossed them in blue buckets.
    Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • If a bottle of this speciality rum isn’t enough, surprise dad with a trip to the hacienda to turn a singular gift into the trip of a lifetime.
    Jillian Dara, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Austin was arrested by Captain John Curtin, the Pinkertons’ best man, during dinner with his wife and friends at a sea-front hacienda.
    Paul Brown, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • When the revolution came, the hacienda was looted, its chapel burned and its water lines shattered.
    Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • So the family bought it, and devised a plan to help defray the cost of maintaining a property and farm of that size by turning the hacienda into a small inn.
    Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Sando and Lupe began by building a fire on the covered porch that encircled the hacienda’s courtyard.
    Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Williamson was running 27 servers out of the plushest hacienda, nearly all of them for absentee owners.
    Mark Schone, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2000
  • Los Poblanos, built in the Spanish hacienda style, is a lush green oasis in the desert and boasts lavender beds, formal English gardens and honey from its own beehives.
    Patti Nickell, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017

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