How to Use landowner in a Sentence

landowner

noun
  • That area is currently owned by Brad Kelley, Texas' largest landowner.
    Katharine Jose, Chron, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Spy photographers abound, but to reduce the chance of its future lineup being scooped, Mercedes rents its own private expanse of sheet ice from a local landowner.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The well is next to the farm’s barn and only about 100 yards from the landowners’ house.
    Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • The team thinks the deceased may have been wealthy landowners.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The county would handle 80% of the costs, while the landowner would put up 20%.
    J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Bazille, the son of a Protestant landowner from the south of France, moved to Paris to pursue art in the early 1860s.
    Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Once sold, Needham will split the finder’s fee with the landowner.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The action was deemed beneficial to both the city and the landowner.
    Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2022
  • All the structures in Section 14 were condemned by the city and the tribal landowners.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • One of the best features of onX is the ability to view any landowner’s name and address.
    Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • While Oprah is the biggest landowner in Maui among the celeb set, the island is no stranger to homes owned by A-listers.
    Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2023
  • There were no cattle, and the landowner would be grateful if someone would shoot the pests.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2021
  • That’s what took him to the Yolo County farm — to call attention to the landowner’s recharging project.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The deal required buying out the landowners in Mount Pleasant and tearing down dozens of homes.
    Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Among the things that don’t matter, under the law: the future intentions of a landowner.
    Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
  • Fast facts: Malone is the largest landowner in the U.S., with some 2.1 million acres of properties.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Povlsen is the richest man in Scotland and its largest private landowner.
    WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • After the state pushed for a park in the 1970s, some landowners feared the government might take their property.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
  • With the landowner’s permission, researchers cut out a small block of soil and brought it back to their lab in the nearby city of Frauenfeld.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Breuer met with the landowner’s daughter in hopes of convincing the family to preserve the space.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Attorney William Graft, of Graft and Jordan, addressed the board on behalf of the landowner.
    Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Darwall, and any other landowner who wanted to, could kick campers out right away.
    Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • In many cases, Black people who had land were renting it from a landowner, who required payment at the end of the year.
    NBC News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • On the other side, for landowners who have put their blood, sweat and tears into the property, handing it over isn’t easy.
    Cara Nixon, oregonlive, 17 July 2023
  • In the past, the Reedy Creek board was elected by the district’s landowners, which effectively put Disney in charge of the district.
    Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But those arrests could be conducted only on private land, and with the consent of the landowner.
    J. David Goodman, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Sprouse and hundreds of other rural landowners in Missouri have put up a fierce fight against the Grain Belt Express.
    Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • With a trust, a landowner could pass an inheritance to a wife and younger children as well as preclude any payments to the lord.
    Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Access required crossing a slice of private land, which had been OK with the landowner until that point.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • By age 7, Victor has mastered the contents of all the books in a local landowner’s vast private library.
    Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022

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