How to Use acreage in a Sentence

acreage

noun
  • A large portion of the park's acreage is forest.
  • That's 7% of the state's acreage.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • About half of this year’s acreage was burned in the last week.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • Not in acreage or budget, but in time.
    — New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2025
  • And much more acreage is going to burn before this is all over.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • And some areas are seeing far more than a fifth of their acreage burned.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • And there was water, a great house, a barn, and tons of acreage for the kids to hunt on.
    — Lauren Helmer, al, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Bruce and Patricia bought the acreage and built a house there.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2022
  • Where open space on the court is as valuable as Montana acreage.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • Part of the reason is a lack of acreage available for wind and solar farms.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • As of now, containment and acreage on both fires remain the same.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The acreage burned is more than double the previous record set two years ago.
    — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The state ranks 35th in the nation for state park acreage per capita.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The fires have grown to be the second- and third-largest fires in terms of acreage burned in state history.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The fire crews are expecting more acreage to burn as the Taboose moves to the west.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2019
  • The state owns about 3 percent, and the rest of the acreage is privately owned.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The acreage also could possibly be the site of a new Catholic high school.
    — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2021
  • That acreage equates to every square inch of the two Dakota states combined.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
  • In some cases, a larger farm with the benefit of economies of scale may buy the acreage.
    — Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Silverthorne said the cause of the fire and the acreage burned have not yet been determined.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • There is a reduction in acreage due to better mapping.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The acreage has been zoned commercial for 16 years, Dupree said.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2024
  • Soybeans quickly surpassed all crops in acreage except for corn and wheat.
    — Time, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The country has nearly quintupled the acreage of green space in its cities over the past two decades.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2021
  • Some give extra voting power to landowners based on amount of acreage — more acres equal more votes.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe there’ll be sculptures that line buffer strips of native grass and woody plants on the west side of the acreage.
    — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In 2004, the acreage burned by mid-July was about the same as now.
    — Mark Thiessen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
  • So far, 2019 has seen far fewer fires and a fraction of the acreage burned.
    — Katy Steinmetz/ukiah, Time, 2 July 2019
  • The acreage includes a cabana-style boat dock with over 2,500 square feet.
    — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • At the $4 million to $5 million price point, buyers can shop views, acreage and square footage.
    — David Caraccio april 4, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2026

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