How to Use land grant in a Sentence

land grant

noun

• In that year, a land grant was issued to put up a sawmill on the site.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 June 2021
• Case said John Randon received one of the 300 land grants.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2019
• Utah State is a land grant college, as is Oregon State.
  — oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2021
• The Daley Ranch traced its roots back to the original Mexican land grant made in 1842.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The land had been deeded to the Benavides family as part of a Spanish land grant in 1767.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The research-intensive land grant school put its DEI program in place in 2010.
  — Erica Licht, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
• The Garifuna settled in the 1800s on the north coast of Honduras on land granted to them by the government.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 23 Jan. 2018
• The Dallam farm name originates from the colonial land grant for the area along with the land’s original owner, John Broom.
  — Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023
• Logan’s brothers used the letters to petition for a land grant.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 29 Mar. 2018
• Once part of a Spanish land grant, the property has belonged to ranchers and dairy families over the years, and became a state park in 2003.
  — Jill K. Robinson, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018
• Congress had passed a law that year which enabled Dexter to be eligible for a War of 1812 land grant.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 July 2021
• Alcorn University was founded in 1871 and was the first Black land grant college in the United States.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 16 Dec. 2020
• Pam Doiron lives in the western part of the valley on a cattle ranch called the Spanish Ranch, which was once part of a Mexican land grant dating to 1843.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• The trust lands granted to states came with the mandate that they be used to raise money for schools and other public institutions.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 27 June 2019
• The land grant expired in 1650, and there’s no mention of de Britto or Kisana in historic documents after that.
  — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 20 May 2021
• The priest’s family roots date at least to the Spanish colonial era, with his father’s ancestors having received a land grant from the king of Spain in the mid-1700s.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 8 July 2019
• Pio Pico and his brother, Andreas, became the first owners in 1841 of the property, which was part of a Mexican land grant.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• The LeBaron colony’s land may have been illegally purchased from this neighboring land grant.
  — Rebecca Janzen, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2019
• The property has a long, rich history; now owned by the University of Virginia, the land was part of Virginia's first land grant, dating back to 1734.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2022
• The Cavazos family has laid a claim to property in the Rio Grande since the 1760s, when their ancestors arrived on a Spanish land grant of more than half a million acres.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
• The property was part of Trinity’s real estate portfolio dating back to a land grant given by Queen Anne to the church in 1705.
  — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 9 July 2018
• There is another path open to them, Jamie points out: Accept Governor Tryon's offer of a vast land grant in the mountains with all its promise and risk.
  — Outlander Fan, Marie Claire, 12 Nov. 2018
• And there are incentives upon incentives—tax breaks, land grants, workforce training funds, and more tax breaks.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 19 Jan. 2018
• Originally part of a land grant, the ranch was fully deeded as a sanctuary for Franciscan friars in the late 1700s.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2020
• More than two hundred years ago, Anzaldua’s ancestors settled on the Texas side of the river, on a Spanish land grant of more than half a million acres.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
• Despite agreeing to live in a small town, Claire and Jamie stumble upon a pretty view, fall in love, and immediately decide to live there with a land grant.
  — Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Nov. 2018
• The Morrill Acts passed by Congress facilitated the creation of Black land grant colleges.
  — CNN, 25 Oct. 2020
• The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's request for $2 million in state funds to match federal land grant funds.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
• Lord John has come for a brief visit bearing gifts, including a land grant to Roger and Bree for 5000 acres as an attempt at compensation for the hanging error.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2020
• In addition to having homes at multiple royal residences, Karim received a land grant in his home city of Agra.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2015

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024