How to Use homesteading in a Sentence

homesteading

noun

• And the idea of just the two of them in New York felt to me very much like the energy of homesteading.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• The claim was untrue, and soon the homesteading plan was riddled with problems.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Leopold blamed homesteading—and the sod-busting that went with Westward expansion—for the depletion of game habitat.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2020
• Survival schools in nearly every state teach off-grid living, homesteading, and wilderness skills.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2020
• There are also plenty of dykey haircuts on display, plus evidence of goddess worship, nude homesteading, and polyamory.
  — Sasha Archibald, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2021
• By 1974, this process, known as urban homesteading, was recognized by the federal government.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2021
• For newcomers to homesteading, Bogwalker offers sound advice: Go slow.
  — Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• The evolution from the short-term probes to long-term lunar homesteading — from exploration to expansion — will require a serious commitment of resources and new technologies.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• The news organizations canvassed the two most recent homesteading subdivisions in Kapolei, a region of former sugar cane land where much of Oahu’s single-family housing has been built the past several decades.
  — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 6 Mar. 2022
• Los Angeles’s growth over the following decades coincided with a booming middle class whose aspirations of suburban homesteading trace back to the English countryside.
  — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• Raban's Bad Land is a narrative history of the homesteading movement, illuminating a sliver of American history.
  — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
• Contemporary notions of private property stem from 17th-century philosopher John Locke’s theory of homesteading, which argued that ownership arises from mixing one’s labor with the natural world in order to create private property.
  — Time, 19 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024