How to Use landholding in a Sentence

landholding

noun

• The chief stumbling block to agreement was the enormous western landholdings of some of the states.
  — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
• All his remaining landholdings are now in the name of his children, Duterte said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• Both the Queen and Prince Charles possess large semiprivate ancestral landholdings that serve as wellsprings of their wealth.
  — David McClure, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2019
• Taxes on the sale of land, in contrast, are hefty, which is one reason for the failure to consolidate landholdings.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• The financing allowed Green Eagle to buy out Louis Dreyfus to invest in new palm oil mills and increase its landholdings.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2016
• Too many farmers rely on the most basic of technologies and own smaller landholdings that preclude economies of scale.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2019
• Elktonia Beach — which was also part of the Carr family’s original landholding and is now a small Annapolis city park — is all that’s left.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
• The installation is the Navy’s largest single landholding, sprawling over 1.1 million acres, an area larger than Rhode Island.
  — Paloma Esquivel, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
• Fiennes is the conservation manager of the Holkham Estate, one of Britain’s most important private landholdings.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• Electables often have large landholdings or other wealth, or are religious leaders.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• Whittell’s landholdings weren’t restricted to the Peninsula.
  — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
• The company started out in 1963 as a timber and real estate management company for Duke Energy’s landholdings, known as Crescent Resources.
  — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 28 Apr. 2018
• Small landholdings and uncertain monsoonal rain make India one of the world’s most expensive places to farm, while the country’s rural economy provides few other job opportunities.
  — Pratik Parija, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2017
• This bottleneck is further complicated with the decreasing size of agricultural landholdings in the country.
  — S Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 27 May 2020
• This money, which adjusted for inflation comes to approximately $1.1 million, allowed my ancestors to expand our landholdings, to start other businesses, and to move away.
  — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024