How to Use hectare in a Sentence

hectare

noun
  • In the past, refugees in Uganda got one-hectare parcels of land.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • His crop grows quickly and now covers half a hectare—a sizable chunk of his land.
    — Linda Nordling, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Rooms The sea is never far away on this seven-hectare island.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2026
  • All my friends have one hectare of lands somewhere, in the islands or in the interland.
    — Valerie Sweeten, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2018
  • In India, 86% of farms are under two hectares.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Rules limit logging to just two trees per hectare every 25 years.
    — Dionne Searcey Arlette Bashizi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • On five hectares of land, Italian cotton primed for its comeback.
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2025
  • So yeah, the audience at home can type 25 hectares to amount of football fields.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
  • The disaster claimed two lives and scorched over 60,000 hectares of land.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Each hectare was surveyed once during the morning and once in the evening, when the squirrels are most active.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 June 2019
  • The first harvest comes four years after planting, and each hectare yields 2 to 3 tons of coffee beans.
    — Christopher Torchia, Fox News, 11 July 2018
  • The rest of the facility takes less than two years to build and can be done just about anywhere there’s 5 hectares of flat land.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Some 2,000 hectares have burnt there, the local prefecture said.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
  • But from here, in Jacopo’s one-hectare garden, you are tucked away in a Tuscan rural idyll.
    — Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • Per hectare, Kenya produces a third as much maize as Brazil, where GM maize is widely grown.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Thirteen of those were classified as large or very large, burning more than 9,000 hectares.
    — Maykel González, Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
  • In exchange, the people agreed to conserve 5,000 hectares of forest.
    — Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Humans eliminate about 10 million hectares of forest per year.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The wines are all made with pure Ansonica grapes from the island, cultivated in the few hectares that face the sea.
    — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • Around 120,000 seasonal workers, in teams of 4 per hectare, are brought in.
    — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Each structure could range from a few tens of square meters to a couple of hectares in size with a domed roof and space for living and growing food for sustenance.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The 500-hectare centre brought a huge number of South Koreans to what had been a sleepy town.
    — Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • The 500-hectare centre brought a huge number of South Koreans to what had been a sleepy town.
    — Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Officials warn that damages in 2026 could reach as much as 4,000 hectares.
    — Maykel González, Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Nestled in a five-hectare olive grove, La Bastide Saint-Antoine is simply a marvel.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 4 Aug. 2021
  • On apple farms, there are often about two or three colonies per hectare, underscoring the scale of the population in the cemetery.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Ningxia is preparing to apply the technique to over 6,000 hectares of desert in the coming years.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
  • More than 15 million hectares (over 37 million acres) across the country have been scorched – an area about the size of Illinois.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
  • That’s despite the fact the area burned by fires around the world was 16% below the long-term average of around 400 million hectares.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • Set within a four-hectare estate in a prime location, the property accommodates no more than 87 guests at any one time.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026

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