How to Use land grab in a Sentence

land grab

noun
  • It was designed for a land grab.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 May 2026
  • This was not a federal land grab from the top down.
    — JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Some questioned if this is a land grab by Bahia Mar.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
  • There is a new land grab going on in the oil-rich fields of West Texas.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • When did a just war to defend the country turn into an unjust land grab?
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The shift to frozen desserts is just the latest twist in this year’s land grab among fast food companies.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2024
  • In his writings, Braulio Castellanos said this set off a land grab.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • The United States is in the middle of a sports betting land grab.
    — Christopher Smith, al, 13 Mar. 2020
  • That said, using a global pandemic as an excuse for a man-cave land grab is gross.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • Kyiv and the West call this a baseless pretext for an aggressive land grab.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 24 July 2022
  • There has been a new land grab in Africa under the guise of foreign investment.
    — Boniface Mwangi, Quartz, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The question is whether Zelensky could have been convinced to agree to this land grab.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Critics say that turned a defensive measure into a land grab.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2018
  • One man at a meeting, Russell said, suggested that a name change was akin to a land grab.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Some critics have also said the initiative amounts to a government land grab.
    — Andrew Mangum, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • This is a grubby land grab with just about as much sordidness of the Teapot Dome affair.
    — Tim Hogan, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Some Barbudans smell a rat, a land grab that could lead to large-scale development.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • In the chaos, an autocrat eyes an opportunity for a land grab.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 18 May 2020
  • But the pandemic prompted a Western land grab, with moguls fleeing the cities for homes on the range.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Love letters are not a new phenomenon, but the unprecedented land grab this year means the trend has flipped.
    — Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • Many Africans regard the land grabs as Mugabe’s crowning achievement.
    — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • This is Bitcoin’s potential land grab if it is newly recognized by the wider world in this light.
    — Edan Yago, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Uber’s investment in Lime is part of a furious land grab in the transportation world.
    — Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • For Facebook, building out the metaverse is just the next move in a years-long land grab for our online attention.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The saga of Richardson Flat land grab is a reminder that the public’s business is best done in public.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Finding any available empty plots in a land grab that’s been running since the 17th century.
    — Kathryn O'Shea Evans, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
  • But land is still being lost and Conteh points to the fires burning close to the catchment area as a new land grab gets underway.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Streaming has ceased being a land grab and started producing real profits.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 June 2026
  • But right now, the status quo is akin to a land grab, with agents and reps focused on the feeding frenzy the table offers upfront right now.
    — Angus Finney, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
  • There have been frequent land disputes in the area, with many accusing the government of sponsoring land grabs.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, The Seattle Times, 27 Nov. 2018

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