How to Use easement in a Sentence

easement

noun
  • No solar farms have been built on land that is under easement.
    — Lily Carey, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And some find that easements make small-scale farming harder.
    — Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The tribe claimed the easement was invalid and that the pipeline must be shut down.
    — Mary Steurer, States Newsroom, 21 May 2026
  • The easement is for the safety of the public because of air drops.
    — Donald Bradley, kansascity.com, 22 May 2017
  • The goal is to get easements on thousands of acres from willing sellers.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Kohler also will get an easement to the main entrance road of the park and other land.
    — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The commission maintains that the easement is in place, so the gate must be open.
    — Calmatters, Oc Register, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The commission maintains that the easement is in place, so the gate must be open.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The land is now owned by the partnership, subject to the easement.
    — Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The easement sale was approved as part of the consent agenda.
    — Anna Bybee-Schier, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
  • The property includes a swim easement and a three-car garage.
    — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Khosla, in turn, offered to sell an easement to the state for $30 million.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 25 Jan. 2020
  • A lot of farmers up here are providing easements for the water.
    — Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • That easement granted the city the right to use the land, DPW says.
    — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 3 July 2025
  • The owners’ suit argued that the government had no right to an easement.
    — Monte Reel, Bloomberg.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The easements will be temporary, Yim said.
    — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Scores of them have already signed easements, and some are actively cheering on the projects.
    — Mitch Smith Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Carter said Cooper spoke to him, demanding to see the easement.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 26 June 2023
  • As part of the grant, the property is subject to a 10-year easement.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The grading in the easement would remain at its current level.
    — Larry Seward, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Semitropic would pay the water mogul $40 million for the easement on the land.
    — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The piece includes a 2-acre pond that would have a conservation easement placed on it.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The trees were deemed by the county to be too close to an easement with utility lines underneath.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • One plan placed part of the home in the street easement, which utility companies need to access.
    — Ren Larson, ProPublica, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Although the state’s easement is 60 feet wide, the pavement there is just 16 feet across.
    — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • But Dufford could not get the proper easements to allow the truck traffic.
    — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Propis said his firm had entered into an extension on the easement on a month-to-month basis for six months.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That's all thanks to a new conservation easement on the Orme Ranch.
    — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
  • That year, the Roberts’ trust gated the Loggers Trail easement.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Nessel filed her own action in 2019 seeking to void the easement in the straits.
    — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025

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