How to Use hectare in a Sentence

hectare

noun

• In the past, refugees in Uganda got one-hectare parcels of land.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Often, it’s one or two trees per hectare per year, Mr. Maas said.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Six and a half hectares, for instance, are now woodland.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• So yeah, the audience at home can type 25 hectares to amount of football fields.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
• All my friends have one hectare of lands somewhere, in the islands or in the interland.
  — Valerie Sweeten, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2018
• His crop grows quickly and now covers half a hectare—a sizable chunk of his land.
  — Linda Nordling, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2020
• Per hectare, Kenya produces a third as much maize as Brazil, where GM maize is widely grown.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
• Each hectare was surveyed once during the morning and once in the evening, when the squirrels are most active.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
• The first harvest comes four years after planting, and each hectare yields 2 to 3 tons of coffee beans.
  — Christopher Torchia, Fox News, 11 July 2018
• More than 15 million hectares (over 37 million acres) across the country have been scorched – an area about the size of Illinois.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
• Both of these measures are expressed in global hectares.
  — Robert B. Richardson, The Conversation, 24 July 2019
• One third of the 8.1 hectare space will be taken up by a park, with space reserved for an orchard and a vegetable garden.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
• More than 6 million acres (2.5 million hectares) went up in flames during May alone.
  — Ian Livingston, Dan Stillman and Jason Samenow, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
• Rules limit logging to just two trees per hectare every 25 years.
  — Dionne Searcey Arlette Bashizi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• Firefighters worked to douse flames that spread through about a quarter acre (.10 hectares) of dry brush, Osby said.
  — Stephanie Dazio, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2020
• At Shambala, Charley will have the freedom to take a mud bath, roam the bush, and be a wild elephant for the first time in four decades with thousands of hectares to explore.
  — Gerald Imray, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2024
• The couple acquired the seven hectares (17.3 acres) of vineyards around La Londe les Maures, Provence.
  — Byrachel King, Fortune, 10 June 2023
• Nestled in a five-hectare olive grove, La Bastide Saint-Antoine is simply a marvel.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 4 Aug. 2021
• The data, current as of August 9, show the 10-year average of area burned to date sits at just over 2 million hectares.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
• Now, more than half of Rashad's land, some 20 hectares (50 acres), is on the other side of the line in Iraqi federal territory.
  — Balint Szlanko, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
• Excavations since the 1700s have opened up a network of dark, cramped spaces called scavi beneath the four-hectare site of the cathedral.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2018
• Thousands of hectares of its rainforests have been cleared to produce palm oil or dig for minerals.
  — Sui-Lee Wee Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• Through the Adopt-a-Park program, sponsoring companies pay at least $9.5 per hectare of the reserve’s area per year.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2021
• In only a decade, the town has managed to reforest much of the town’s twenty thousand hectares with native pines.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• So far Heron Farms has seeded over a quarter hectare of land with a native species, S. bigelovii, and Norton plans to expand the effort.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2021
• In 1841, four years before the famine began, just under a million hectares of land was planted in potatoes.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2017
• That’s far less than the 2 tons per hectare that farms with new, higher-yielding varieties can produce.
  — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2017
• Finally, hemp crops can produce up to double the fiber yield per hectare than cotton.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Plans call for bringing Lolita to a netted whale sanctuary of about 15 acres (6 hectares).
  — Gene Johnson, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• The very highest quality Iberico pork comes from pigs that eat exclusively acorns and live in oak groves with 1.25 pigs per hectare.
  — Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024