How to Use homestead in a Sentence

homestead

1 of 2 noun
  • They decided to farm the old homestead.
  • Those who don’t pay the homestead will bear the burden.
    — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The relief goes to the people that own a home, have a homestead.
    — Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The relief goes to the people that own a home, have a homestead.
    — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2025
  • This was one of the great voices, making an arena her homestead.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 June 2026
  • How could so many people not know about the homestead exemption?
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • My parents can sell the house and buy a prefab unit, five times smaller than the homestead.
    — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The desk built from the pieces of my mother’s family homestead.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The couple moved from a homestead to Naknek, and split up when Liz was 9 years old.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Most homestead gardens are at least one-quarter acre, with many covering up to an acre of land.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That year, her husband, George, urged her to advocate for a park near their homestead.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
  • Celebrate the running of the roses on the front lawn of this historic homestead.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The sprawling kitchen was the heart of the old stone homestead, which in turn was the heart of Meredith Downs.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • As Tunde and Sadako place their treasures in their car, the old homestead is visible.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This once spooky house on the hill doesn’t have a fraction of the recognition as the family’s other homestead.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 July 2022
  • So all of his assets are protected by the homestead laws in Florida.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2022
  • This is due in part to Eugene’s slow and steady approach to establishing a true homestead.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Raney seems to sincerely believe that the homestead life is the ideal for everyone.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The most common is the homestead exemption, which lowers the taxable value of a home.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In the last decade, two modest proposals to increase the homestead exemption have both failed.
    — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • His great-grandmother bought a portion of the homestead nearly a century ago.
    — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • When Maasai leaders refused to send their people away, the police burned as many as a hundred and fifty homesteads.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Today’s Capricorn new moon asks you to consider the health and happiness of your homestead.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The definition of a homestead varies, and often depends on who’s doing the defining.
    — Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
  • The rule regarding a homestead exemption would not apply to the families of athletes who rent their homes.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026
  • And stop to tour the cove’s historic homesteads, church, and gristmill dating to the early 1800s.
    — Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Right now, people 65 and older have their homestead home values on school property taxes frozen.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The solution is to increase the homestead exemption.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2026
  • What began as a pop-up has evolved into a destination restaurant on their five-acre homestead in the tiny town of Mobile.
    — Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • If a home was passed down, there’s an heir property homestead exemption that lets the full property qualify, not just your share.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026

homestead

2 of 2 verb
  • They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.
  • There’s a lot of this weird arrogance with the homesteading stuff these days.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
  • His trading post and homestead at the mouth of the river were the seed from which our great city grew.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • Caring for the plants, much like homesteading, comes easy for Markey, who grew up on a farm.
    — Author: Cheryl Upshaw, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Families homesteaded in the area to ranch cattle and grow hay.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The Moodys were homesteading for years before moving to Ramona.
    — Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
  • To lighten the load, politicians have awarded us homestead exemptions that serve as discounts.
    — Dallas News, 12 May 2022
  • Will keeps their homesteading all but invisible in a nature preserve just west of Portland.
    — Colin Covert, kansascity, 12 July 2018
  • About 91% of our city is residential, and 62% of those homes are homesteaded.
    — Lisa Mallozzi, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
  • About 91% of our city is residential, and 62% of those homes are homesteaded.
    — Lisa Mallozzi, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026
  • His parents homesteaded and lived on a ranch raising animals, miles away from any town and living through the depression.
    — Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 2 July 2017
  • Tour the first floor of Stonewalls, the 1720 Hayes homestead where the family resided.
    — courant.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Citizens who homestead will potentially see a small tax break (average less than $150 a year).
    — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • But disabled people who are homesteaded receive an additional tax discount.
    — Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019
  • So Rubinson led the charge to make the family homestead less dated and more comfortable with a full-on renovation.
    — Laura Kostelny, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Lindsey Chastain is an expert gardener and the founder of homesteading website Waddle and Cluck.
    — Asia London Palomba, The Spruce, 10 May 2026
  • Lonely Dell Ranch was homesteaded by Lee, an unexpected oasis at the base of colorful cliffs.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Then again, Blane Barksdale probably blended easily with the homesteading folk he was believed to be hiding among, Adams said.
    — Chelsea Curtis, azcentral, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Homestead police eventually found the then-3-year-old boy and arrested Clanetha Davis.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 1 June 2017
  • As things stand, homesteaded properties get property tax exemptions and a 3% cap on annual tax increases.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2026
  • The property was first homesteaded as a working cattle and hay cutting ranch in 1915 by Clarence Lytle.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2026
  • The home is not homesteaded, a designation that limits property tax increases when the owner declares it as their primary residence.
    — Samantha Neely, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Bonine, who owned the land, divided it into 1-acre lots and offered it to African-Americans to homestead in exchange for clearing the property.
    — Karen Torme Olson, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • Will keeps their homesteading all but invisible in Forest Park, a nature preserve in the mountains just west of Portland, Oregon.
    — Colin Covert, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
  • Her paternal grandparents homesteaded in Chickaloon in the ’40s and ’50s.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Tempering the haute with the homesteaded, the opulent with the bracingly simple, Beran and his crew rejigger expectations of what a tasting menu can be.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • For properties that aren’t homesteaded — owner-occupied — the foreclosure process dramatically accelerates, from a three-year time frame to just one.
    — Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Our parents were up the sand, loose and recumbent, snacking on octopus jerky and reading aloud journal entries my great-great-great-great-grandfather kept as his family traversed the territory to homestead a new life.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • If your property is homesteaded, local governments can’t revoke your tax exemption for building and renting out an ADU on your property.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
  • And now, folks in Tallahassee suggest that homesteaded Florida residents should be exempt from property taxes.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026

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