How to Use land grab in a Sentence

land grab

noun

• So far the land grab has paid off for the early movers.
  — Lara Korte, WSJ, 19 June 2018
• There is a new land grab going on in the oil-rich fields of West Texas.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• The United States is in the middle of a sports betting land grab.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 13 Mar. 2020
• In his writings, Braulio Castellanos said this set off a land grab.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• But the pandemic prompted a Western land grab, with moguls fleeing the cities for homes on the range.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• There has been a new land grab in Africa under the guise of foreign investment.
  — Boniface Mwangi, Quartz, 18 Sep. 2019
• Kyiv and the West call this a baseless pretext for an aggressive land grab.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 24 July 2022
• This is a grubby land grab with just about as much sordidness of the Teapot Dome affair.
  — Tim Hogan, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• The saga of Richardson Flat land grab is a reminder that the public’s business is best done in public.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
• This is the greatest land grab in the history of media ever.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 6 Dec. 2018
• One man at a meeting, Russell said, suggested that a name change was akin to a land grab.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
• Many of the residents who spoke at the meetings described the project as an excessive land grab that would take away from the small town feel of Boerne.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
• But land is still being lost and Conteh points to the fires burning close to the catchment area as a new land grab gets underway.
  — David McKenzie, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• For Facebook, building out the metaverse is just the next move in a years-long land grab for our online attention.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 28 Oct. 2021
• Biden promised that the U.S., along with its allies and partners, would not let any support for Putin's land grab go unpunished.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2022
• Critics of the Russian church call it a spiritual land grab.
  — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 31 July 2022
• Uber’s investment in Lime is part of a furious land grab in the transportation world.
  — Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• But right now, the status quo is akin to a land grab, with agents and reps focused on the feeding frenzy the table offers upfront right now.
  — Angus Finney, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
• That said, using a global pandemic as an excuse for a man-cave land grab is gross.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 8 July 2021
• That has set off a land grab between the 27-nation bloc and the U.K. for lucrative financial transactions and the jobs and clout that come with them.
  — Simon Clark, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• Many Africans regard the land grabs as Mugabe’s crowning achievement.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
• Some Barbudans smell a rat, a land grab that could lead to large-scale development.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• But the Buddhists’ joy in August has given way to fears of land grabs, a loss of trade and damage to the fragile ecosystem of the region’s high-altitude deserts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
• Finding any available empty plots in a land grab that’s been running since the 17th century.
  — Kathryn O'Shea Evans, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
• Love letters are not a new phenomenon, but the unprecedented land grab this year means the trend has flipped.
  — Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
• Ruiz de Burton wrote the novel to push back against the negative stereotypes the squatters used to justify their land grab.
  — Esther Allen, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
• The Crimean land grab also robbed Russia of the chance to act as a balancing force between America and China.
  — chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Some have criticized the 30 by 30 plan as a federal land grab, but statements around the plan show the goal could be achieved through a patchwork of public and private land.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 15 Mar. 2021
• Once Spanos announced The Decision, Faulconer tried to replace football with a land grab dressed up in futbol wrapping that was in the works for many months.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• The rule-making docket started to fill up with comments from critics charging that the concept was nothing but a Wall Street land grab.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024