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 the original conception, to own a farm and manage a homestead was to secure your economic standing and cultivate the habits of citizenship.
From Seattle Times
Six miles east through old-growth forest is Longmire, a national historic district with an inn, a museum and a past life as a 19th century homestead and mineral springs resort.
From Seattle Times
Staff from the agency’s Chicago office planned to survey storm damage Wednesday in the Gibson City area, where at least two homesteads suffered damage and power lines were knocked down.
From Seattle Times
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