How to Use landholder in a Sentence

landholder

noun

• In Texas, the agency has paid $18 million to landholders over the last decade.
  — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Julian Aguilar and Kiah Collier, star-telegram, 15 Dec. 2017
• Cities and states pushed restrictions on the rights of private landholders to seek wealth at the expense of homes.
  — Richard White, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• Asili's landholders make £16 per year (around $22) from moringa seed sales, although this depends on the yield.
  — Georgia Murray, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Among the largest landholders in southern France, the Forbins managed to retain control of the castle for 500 years.
  — James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
• This appealed to Benedict, who was one of the first landholders in Pennsylvania to sign up to the program.
  — Marcello Rossi, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
• By the time Fidel was a youngster, his father was a major landholder.
  — Anthony Depalma, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2016
• The giant forest products company is one of the largest private landholders in the United States.
  — Fortune, 1 July 2019
• After the fall of Communism, Mr. Angyan made the case that small landholders could keep villages alive through sustainable practices.
  — Benjamin Novak, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2019
• Later, those skills were a nice fit for an oil and gas company that hired McNeal to secure agreements with local landholders for pipeline rights-of-way.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Or why a large landholder farther south is thinking of planting a solar array on his fields rather than the thirsty almonds that delivered steady profit for years.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2021
• In fact, the ordinance on Zone 9 will remove any preservation oversight of Brown, which is the largest landholder and the most aggressive developer in that new zone.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• Nature is returning, albeit in a careful compromise with landholders, who are slowly learning when to push and when to hold back.
  — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
• At the heart of the issue lies age-old traditions in management of the land, made up mostly of small plots that have become fire hazards after they were abandoned by new generations of landholders who moved to the cities.
  — Axel Bugge, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2017
• Private ranchers are by far the biggest landholders of the Central Valley’s remaining vernal pools.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 8 May 2023
• Small landholders across the continent are increasingly getting priced out or even evicted to make way for big commercial farms.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 30 July 2017
• Metro drawing up long-term regional plan Officials noted Metro’s role was merely as a landholder, stressing the city would operate and maintain the space.
  — Dug Begley, Houston Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
• Telangana, for instance, has introduced direct cash payments to landholders, a project that could lead to the phasing out of less efficient subsidies.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Headquartered in Fairbanks, Doyon is the largest private landholder in Alaska.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2019
• There were some court cases, but only the largest landholders with the best legal representation were compensated.
  — Adam Matthews, Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2015
• In Queensland, landholders have been accused of poisoning kangaroos and erecting fences to prevent them from reaching water.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• According to a series of Romanian media reports, Petrescu kept a low profile in his daily life, but was a major landholder in Bucharest.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
• The average age of US farmers – and agricultural landholders – has been steadily rising, to the point where today many are looking to secure a comfortable retirement.
  — Carey L. Biron, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2018
• Many of the landholders are newcomers from out of state, though some old-timers remain—families that earned their deeds generations ago, the principal paid by ancestors who shivered through pitiless winters in tar-paper shacks.
  — Monte Reel, Bloomberg.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Don Bailey estimated the price likely would have been closer to $2.4 million and recalled family members dealing with a private landholder rather than the foundation.
  — Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
• Smaller and poorer landholders took whatever the government offered — or wrung out small increases in settlements.
  — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
• Other parking lots near stations are owned by private landholders, smaller regional transit agencies, or municipalities that host the stations.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• The sessions are intended for municipalities, school districts, parks, corporate campuses and other large landholders, rather than homeowners.
  — cleveland.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Justice Department attorneys continue to locate and pay the additional landholders.
  — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
• Still, the aging of US agricultural landholders does offer potential opportunities.
  — Carey L. Biron, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 16 May 2018

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024