How to Use landowner in a Sentence
landowner
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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 -
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 -
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 -
But the landowner, Brodsky Holdings, replaced it with Brooklyn Fare, a gourmet grocer that agreed to pay far more rent.
— Jasper Craven, Curbed, 4 May 2022 -
The film, set in 1901, focuses on three men hired by a Spanish landowner to mark out his property.
— Marta Balaga, Variety, 27 May 2023 -
That’s the amount the defendants — including Hawaiian Electric, the state, Maui County, large landowners and others — have agreed to pay to settle claims.
— Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024 -
That's the amount the defendants — including Hawaiian Electric, the state, Maui County, large landowners and others — have agreed to pay to settle claims.
— CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
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