How to Use the land in a Sentence

the land

noun
  • Buy American has been the law of the land since the 1930s.
    USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Ready to plan an epic trip to the land of fire and Iceland?
    Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2023
  • From the beginning of the show, the fight has always been for the land.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But the boom is taking a toll on the people who live on the land.
    Cate Brown, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In the Amazon, farmers want to steal the land from the natives.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Don’t forget to factor in the cost of plans, the purchase price of the land and so forth.
    Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • What should also be listened to are the dogs, the wildlife, and the land itself.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • For the very first time, Wallen has a chart double in the land Down Under.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2023
  • At the time, the land was at the end of an old dirt farm lane off Gist Road, way outside of town.
    Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2024
  • Try to learn from the original people of the land, too.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But heat waves like July’s aren’t just confined to the land.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Gentry surveyed the land for all of the fossils present, from shells to shark teeth.
    Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • When Jin-su returns to the land of the living, he is haunted by hell.
    Kayti Burt, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The family that had owned and farmed the land for decades had moved to Reykjavík, three and a half hours away.
    Paige McClanahan, TIME, 20 June 2024
  • The people from the cities were seen as ruining the lives of those who were people of the land in the country.
    Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Since then, crews have approached the land only to secure the house, Leto said.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • On top of this shaking of the land, in the past few days large cracks have started to form in and around Grindavík.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The scenery is meant to approximate what the land might have looked like to those sold down the river.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The sticking point may be how much of the land the Heat will accept for overflow parking.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Hollywood is no longer viewed as the land of glitzy and glamorous jobs.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Hamas' killing of 1,200 people, most of them civilians, has left scars on the land and its people.
    Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • There’s only one major restriction to the use of the land.
    Sarah Rappaport, Fortune, 10 May 2024
  • There are 27 Native tribes with historic ties to the land, according to the park.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
  • In addition to providing the loan, the city also sold the land to Cal-Coast.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The champion’s prizes for having pulled off such a feat and become the greatest in the land?
    Jamie Barton, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • For years, online shopping was the land of falling prices.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Under the purchase agreement, the land is set to be sold for $14.6 million.
    Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The region is prone to wildfires and much of the land is covered in forests, but Kolesov said something has changed.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Then comes an informal beauty pageant to select the finest turkey in the land.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Making the land so immersive tapped into the growing importance of what is known as the Experience Economy.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024

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