How to Use landed in a Sentence

landed

adjective

• Quigley said a landed punch on the head of Tapia caused his injuries.
  — Robert Morales, Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2013
• In Olde England, hunting was the privilege of the landed and the rich.
  — seattletimes.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• The landed gentry hold hands with bankers, the petite bourgeoisie, and the nouveaux riche.
  — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
• Apparently, a landed carp is comfortable and less prone to flail when bagged and tied to the dock.
  — Kirk Deeter, Field & Stream, 5 Dec. 2020
• Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, is home to the nation’s top fishing port in terms of landed volume.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2021
• While photographed several times over the years, no other country has soft-landed on the far side.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2019
• In Dead Souls the diabolic anti-hero buys up the names of serfs who have died since the last census in order to pass himself off as a landed gentleman.
  — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
• When the Constitution was first written, women were in some ways property of the landed gentry.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• How will total landed costs be impacted by adding a new supplier?
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• As of April 17, Grande's out-of-this-world-themed line of glitter eye pots, matte lipsticks, and false lashes have crash-landed online at ulta.com and select Ulta Beauty stores around the country.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 17 Apr. 2022
• The peasants who remained in the countryside were often able to take their pick of unused land, increasing the power of the landed peasantry and boosting the rural economy.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2020
• In this iteration, Michael is now in his 60s and married to a landed English noblewoman.
  — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2020
• The speculators especially targeted the landed gentry, who sent their younger sons out to seek their fame and fortune.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• Jefferson of course was an aristocrat, a member of Virginia’s landed gentry.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 1 July 2021
• The founding fathers were accused by some historians of writing the Constitution to protect their landed wealth.
  — Alan Ehrenhalt, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2016
• Historically, horse sport was a pursuit of the landed and, in its earliest iterations, the Classic could still be counted on to draw out what remained of the clubby Hamptons summer elite.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
• Evidence discovered by landed and orbital missions point to wet conditions billions of years ago.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2020
• Only one other mission—China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft—has soft-landed in this rugged, forbidding region.
  — Shekhar Chandra, Scientific American, 12 July 2019
• Indeed, William’s Norman lords, and the Anglo-Saxons who backed him, became landed millionaires, even billionaires, by today’s standards.
  — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
• Chanting their names as the pair was introduced, the squad applauded every landed jump, including an impressive triple twist lift, and clapped along to the Beatles cover as the pair did their final step sequence and entered their death spiral.
  — Time, 14 Feb. 2018
• After shrugging off Whyte’s attempt to confuse him by turning southpaw in the first round, Fury relied on his smarts, movement and activity to deflate the challenger as Whyte averaged less than five landed punches per round.
  — Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2022
• Along with a focus on smaller, discount passenger operations and more on-site services, the airport has overhauled its business, with more than half the landed-weight of aircraft now coming from cargo operations.
  — Paul Page, WSJ, 26 July 2017
• In their newly independent nation, the Dutch were mainly led by urban oligarchies comprised of wealthy merchants, unlike other European countries of the era, which were controlled by landed nobility.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• George’s grandmother Queen Victoria had ruled a country largely governed by its landed aristocracy.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• The Tories, traditionally representatives of big business and the landed aristocracy, weirdly resembled the fiery trade unionists of the past in their demand that workers be represented on corporate boards.
  — Pankaj Mishra, New York Times, 20 June 2017
• American companies that subcontracted manufacturing to China as a cost-control measure have seen those savings vanish due to rising landed costs.
  — Doug Donahue, Forbes, 18 June 2021

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024