How to Use parkland in a Sentence

parkland

noun
  • Just keep one strip of parkland up in the air and push the rest out over the water.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Vistra had leased the parkland to the state at no cost for nearly 50 years.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The public parkland is leased to Wild Rivers, which shares part of its revenue with the city of Irvine.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
  • Their key demand is that the ROC renounce its claim to this piece of parkland.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2019
  • The Knights Golf Course is a 7,000 yard parkland layout with ponds, bunkers, and mature trees adding to the scenery and the challenge.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The median park size is 6.5 acres and 15 percent of the city is parkland.
    Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 31 May 2016
  • Planning is set to start on the new city parkland later this year.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
  • The tallest of all skyscrapers, The Illinois was to have risen from the prodigious green acres of Chicago parkland.
    Jonathan Glancey, CNN, 7 June 2017
  • The northern end of the trail is at Heron’s Head, a spit of parkland owned by the Port Authority.
    Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2018
  • There wasn’t much thought given to setting aside parkland when the wild was all around them.
    Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2017
  • The former foundry site will be restored and become park of the parkland along the river bank.
    Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • But the county says the record is clear: the Ponds is not technically parkland.
    Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Owned by New York City, the statue sat on public parkland.
    Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Critics say the measure would give the city’s mayor too much power over the use of parkland.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Outdoors lovers and civic groups bemoaned the loss of parkland that would be required.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The Castle of Mey, tucked away in the Northern Highlands, includes 30 acres of parkland.
    Vogue, 15 May 2019
  • Maslo wants to prove that a town can recoup its tax losses with new lures, such as parkland trails and a kayak launch.
    Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2018
  • The castle, set on the shores of Lough Dromoland, is surrounded by more than 450 acres of parkland.
    Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The $6 billion, 55-acre project would include new towers, roads and bridges and parkland.
    Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The Middle Mountain hikes do not enter the state parkland.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
  • Three Rivers' parkland includes 43 lakes and more than 30 miles of river.
    Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • Almost 200 acres of parkland and greenbelts were set aside.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Like the Virginia duo Palmyra playing with the parkland’s red and white oaks behind them, or a quartet called t.l.a.o.o.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • To make that feasible, the mayor shrank the amount of open parkland in his proposal from 47 acres to 26 acres.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The fund is regularly tapped for the planting of new trees around the city, the Woody Branch project marks the first time that it has been used to acquire parkland.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But some park advocates have pushed for the Shattuck to be returned to parkland.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • Most of the property is parkland, and some sections are used for grazing sheep.
    Kevin Brass, New York Times, 21 June 2017
  • There’s also 345 acres of spit parkland, which Mozzi says reminds him of Hyde Park in London.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Nonprofits like the Friends of the Parks opposed the loss of parkland and had threatened to sue to block developments, but the plan to build the center was approved shortly after a lawsuit was filed.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Muir, the famed naturalist, believes the only way to save America’s parklands is by harnessing the power of the president.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2025

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