How to Use homesteader in a Sentence

homesteader

noun
  • The homesteader, who’s in her 50s but asked not to share her exact age, raises chickens, bees, and Texas Longhorns.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The first homesteader, Charles Gill, arrived on Cabbage Key in 1896 and later acquired the rights.
    Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • McClelland and O’Neill quickly learned that new homesteaders face a steep learning curve.
    Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
  • Pahl, originally from Ohio, came to Alaska in 1980 to become a homesteader.
    Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Settling in the wild Malibu Hills, the obstinate, pioneering Decker and other homesteaders ranched, farmed, hunted, and cleared out a life for themselves.
    Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But in the 1800s, miners, ranchers and homesteaders moved into the Mojave, building ephemeral boomtowns like Barnwell and Vanderbilt.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Ultimately, Ludvig’s is the story of a homesteader, and Arcel treats it with the iconography and grandeur of a classic western, Scandinavian style.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Ultimately, Ludvig’s is the story of a homesteader, and Arcel treats it with the iconography and grandeur of a classic Western, Scandinavian style.
    Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, there’s no denying that giving away land that belonged to Native Americans and enabling mostly white homesteaders to populate the West did grievous harm to indigenous tribes.
    John F. Wasik, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Though these buildings were removed after the war (many of them repurposed nearby for homesteaders who won land grants), this is one of the main places Japanese American survivors and descendants want and need to visit.
    Tamiko Nimura, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • His family were homesteaders, mill workers, farmers and developers who arrived in Central Oregon in the late 1800s.
    Bryce Dole, oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Writers, artists, gardeners, and lovers of quiet environments have settled in Gustavus, and the town’s homesteader history lives on in its old-style atmosphere.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • If rates were, say around 1 percent (as is perfectly common including in zero income tax states), the clamor for exemptions, from the homesteaders, the seniors, the veterans, the big families, would vanish.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Rudolf and Hedwig saw themselves as homesteaders, fulfilling the Nazi ideal of reclaiming rural territory for the master race.
    Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Here was a man who’d stayed a homesteader while the nation suburbanized, who could play the blues without thieving style or attitude from Black artists, who always sounded country but never defensively white.
    Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Black homesteaders had set up communities and farms in an attempt to chart their own destinies — including in California — only for some of these settlements to be overrun, seized or burned down in racially motivated attacks.
    Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Indy seeks tips from nearby homesteaders, showcasing the power of community and resourcefulness in transforming their dreams into reality.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 30 Aug. 2023

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