How to Use land in a Sentence
- The land stretched as far as you could see.
- They bought some land and built a house.
- They cleared some land to grow crops.
- His lands extend as far as the eye can see.
- He was the most powerful politician in the land.
- They invaded the country by land and by sea.
- After two days of sailing, we were miles from land.
- They own land in Alaska.
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Sit back on their butts while the Army takes over their land?
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
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Each tribe has two teams: a land crew and a canoe crew.
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Here’s an idea: join your local land trust and take a hike.
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The boy used the northern lights to travel the vast lands to where people were sick and helped them.
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As if by magic, Hollywood lands near my home, on the edge of the sea, in the purest and most unspoiled land in the world.
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Canada hosts one of Earth’s largest forests; more of a third of the country’s land is covered by trees.
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Now on the market, the house and its 0.8 acres of land are available for just under $20 million.
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Quiros used the funds to buy hundreds of acres of land, and several homes in Vermont.
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The biologists labored in the dark, as that’s when the turtles emerged from the surf and crawled up on land to lay their eggs.
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In this land once cast asunder Hunt clues will be released at about midnight at TwinCities.com/treasurehunt each day of the hunt.
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The new land is one of the five worlds featured at the all-new Universal Epic Universe theme park opening in 2025.
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The county could then purchase land and build new housing.
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But the thing to keep in mind is, oceans are actually -- land is warming faster than oceans.
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The Bethlehem Road site area is a little more than 22 acres and involves five land parcels.
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Henry Pool and his wife, who held nobody in bondage, built the church on their land as a house of worship for free and enslaved Blacks.
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Alexa Cardona expected the balloon to land on the pavement.
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Local control of land use is an article of faith in many states.
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Building a large central parking garage could open up a vast area of land for more green space or new buildings for the park.
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And in Ecuador, a court ruling in favor of one Indigenous group could lead to more land rights for others.
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The building and land is assessed at $1.5 million, according to the town’s website.
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If an Asian hornet lands, volunteers attach tinsel streamers to its back to monitor its flight path and trace it back to its nest.
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The proclamation also called for free trade, free elections, and land distribution.
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- The golf ball landed in the trees.
- The bird landed in a tree.
- The pilot was able to land the plane on the runway.
- The plane landed on the runway.
- The cat fell from the tree but landed on its feet.
- I could not see where the ball landed.
- We watched the seaplanes landing on the water.
- A butterfly landed on the flower.
- It was raining heavily at the airport when we landed.
- Our flight was scheduled to land in Pittsburgh at 4:00.
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This is the third time the school has landed in the top 10 in the last decade.
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The ball landed on the front edge and rolled into the cup.
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This is the fourth year in a row the Freedom Center has landed in the top three.
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Phelan caught the ball and landed on his back as B.C. won with no time left.
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Mindy Smith Mindy Smith landed her first record deal with her version of the track.
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Davis is expected to plead not guilty to the murder charge, which could land him in prison for the rest of his life.
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The JetBlue pilots were able to pull up and circle around and land safely.
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The video footage showed vendors and shoppers alike startled by the crash landing over their heads.
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Trying to land and unhook a great white shark while seated in a kayak on an open bay?
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The Cali icon has landed 45 songs on the ranking throughout his career.
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The helicopters landed on Platform C in the Gullfaks oil and gas field.
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In early 2019, China became the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon’s far side.
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There’s nothing worse than landing in a new city, ready to view the sites, only to see that your phone is low on battery.
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Once the Peregrine lander has safely landed on the moon, the Iris rover will drop from its payload deck in the center.
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Instead of letting her off the plane early, the crewmember told her to find her after the plane landed.
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Then leaped completely out of the water, landing on its back.
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At 13 years old, Sara landed the role of Darlene Conner on Roseanne.
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This is the third week (all consecutive) that Swift has landed 11 titles on the chart.
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Everything on the menu is less than $15, with most entrees landing around $10.
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Teams of volunteers now hunt Asian hornets landing on British soil, but detection is only the tip of the iceberg, says Elmes.
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Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'land.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
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