How to Use homesteader in a Sentence

homesteader

noun
  • Americans who buy a house tend to think like homesteaders.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
  • And the fact that the latest group of homesteaders have just held a dance in the town barn doesn’t spare them from a massacre.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
  • Most of our neighbors were farmers, loggers, or homesteaders.
    — John Klar, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Success comes for one neighborhood, a few buildings, one block here, a handful of urban homesteaders there.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2025
  • As a Black homesteader myself, I've been met with resistance to farm work in my networks.
    — Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The homesteader, who’s in her 50s but asked not to share her exact age, raises chickens, bees, and Texas Longhorns.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2023
  • McClelland and O’Neill quickly learned that new homesteaders face a steep learning curve.
    — Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
  • Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In the 1880s, homesteaders from Texas moved into the canyon and established cattle ranches.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Now, my grandmother was sort of a California hillbilly, the eldest of 17 kids, and her dad was a homesteader and a medicine showman.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Farmer Wants a Wife is back for a fourth season, with a new crop of handsome homesteaders who are hoping to finally harvest their happily ever after.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Pahl, originally from Ohio, came to Alaska in 1980 to become a homesteader.
    — Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Legend has it that before Colorado was even a state, an outlaw was hung in the Castle Rock gulch after murdering a local homesteader.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • The first homesteader, Charles Gill, arrived on Cabbage Key in 1896 and later acquired the rights.
    — Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Of two Montana homesteaders at war over a gate installed on a private road, one is a nerd culture YouTuber who directs his fans’ ire toward the ever-present thorn in his side.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But after early-20th-century homesteaders began working seams of surface coal, mining took off and coal-burning power plants grew to sustain the rural county.
    — Elaine Glusac, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
  • Highlights include dogsledding, curling lessons with locals, dining with homesteaders, soaking in geothermal hot springs, snowshoeing on private land, and tea with reindeer herders.
    — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Writers, artists, gardeners, and lovers of quiet environments have settled in Gustavus, and the town’s homesteader history lives on in its old-style atmosphere.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • To live as 1880s homesteaders, each family will have to navigate life without electricity or running water throughout the eight episodes.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Rudolf and Hedwig saw themselves as homesteaders, fulfilling the Nazi ideal of reclaiming rural territory for the master race.
    — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The first generation of homesteaders practiced full self-sufficiency out of necessity, Proctor said.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Ree Drummond, Food Network star and famous homesteader, just dropped her biggest furniture collection to date at Walmart.
    — Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
  • For homesteaders taking an incremental, DIY approach, hoop houses and mini greenhouses are great entry points.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Settling in the wild Malibu Hills, the obstinate, pioneering Decker and other homesteaders ranched, farmed, hunted, and cleared out a life for themselves.
    — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Here was a man who’d stayed a homesteader while the nation suburbanized, who could play the blues without thieving style or attitude from Black artists, who always sounded country but never defensively white.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Of course, there’s no denying that giving away land that belonged to Native Americans and enabling mostly white homesteaders to populate the West did grievous harm to indigenous tribes.
    — John F. Wasik, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Ultimately, Ludvig’s is the story of a homesteader, and Arcel treats it with the iconography and grandeur of a classic western, Scandinavian style.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Though these buildings were removed after the war (many of them repurposed nearby for homesteaders who won land grants), this is one of the main places Japanese American survivors and descendants want and need to visit.
    — Tamiko Nimura, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023

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