homestead
Example Sentences
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After randomly plucking an abandoned homestead site off a real estate map, she heads to Big Sandy, Mont., a folksy small town where residents admirably offer her support for survival under forbidding conditions.
From Washington Post
He spent much of the time at his homestead with other family members who gathered there.
From Seattle Times
In Utah, he stays in an elegant property overlooking the Colorado Plateau where rooms go for more than $3,000 a night but finds a real sense of spirituality visiting his Navajo guide’s modest homestead.
From Seattle Times
"They continue to be displaced, we have new arrivals coming into IDP camps and they're telling their stories that they don't feel safe in their homesteads and in their farms."
From BBC
In 1858, colonial Gov. Sir James Douglas invited Black people in California — who were freed from slavery but could not legally vote or homestead — to take up land claims in B.C.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
