How to Use land grant in a Sentence

land grant

noun
  • In that year, a land grant was issued to put up a sawmill on the site.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 June 2021
  • Dabney later received a land grant and lived as a free man in Georgia.
    — Jonathan Miller, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Logan’s brothers used the letters to petition for a land grant.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Mary seems to receive her land grant, then lose it, then return to Mudd, then turn on Mudd in the course of a couple of days.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And there are incentives upon incentives—tax breaks, land grants, workforce training funds, and more tax breaks.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The trust lands granted to states came with the mandate that they be used to raise money for schools and other public institutions.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 27 June 2019
  • The LeBaron colony’s land may have been illegally purchased from this neighboring land grant.
    — Rebecca Janzen, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The research-intensive land grant school put its DEI program in place in 2010.
    — Erica Licht, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In addition to having homes at multiple royal residences, Karim received a land grant in his home city of Agra.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2015
  • The Dallam farm name originates from the colonial land grant for the area along with the land’s original owner, John Broom.
    — Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The land had been deeded to the Benavides family as part of a Spanish land grant in 1767.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Congress had passed a law that year which enabled Dexter to be eligible for a War of 1812 land grant.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 July 2021
  • The Daley Ranch traced its roots back to the original Mexican land grant made in 1842.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In the English-speaking Caribbean, all land for which there was no land grant was considered property of the British crown.
    — Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
  • There are also spectacular standalone casitas that overlook the nearby hills and valleys of the Piedra Lumbre land grant.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Once part of a Spanish land grant, the property has belonged to ranchers and dairy families over the years, and became a state park in 2003.
    — Jill K. Robinson, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • The land grant expired in 1650, and there’s no mention of de Britto or Kisana in historic documents after that.
    — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 20 May 2021
  • Despite agreeing to live in a small town, Claire and Jamie stumble upon a pretty view, fall in love, and immediately decide to live there with a land grant.
    — Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Nov. 2018
  • The Garifuna settled in the 1800s on the north coast of Honduras on land granted to them by the government.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The Morrill Acts passed by Congress facilitated the creation of Black land grant colleges.
    — CNN, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Originally part of a land grant, the ranch was fully deeded as a sanctuary for Franciscan friars in the late 1700s.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2020
  • More than two hundred years ago, Anzaldua’s ancestors settled on the Texas side of the river, on a Spanish land grant of more than half a million acres.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's request for $2 million in state funds to match federal land grant funds.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
  • Alcorn University was founded in 1871 and was the first Black land grant college in the United States.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The priest’s family roots date at least to the Spanish colonial era, with his father’s ancestors having received a land grant from the king of Spain in the mid-1700s.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 8 July 2019
  • Pio Pico and his brother, Andreas, became the first owners in 1841 of the property, which was part of a Mexican land grant.
    — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The property was part of Trinity’s real estate portfolio dating back to a land grant given by Queen Anne to the church in 1705.
    — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • Pam Doiron lives in the western part of the valley on a cattle ranch called the Spanish Ranch, which was once part of a Mexican land grant dating to 1843.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Lord John has come for a brief visit bearing gifts, including a land grant to Roger and Bree for 5000 acres as an attempt at compensation for the hanging error.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The property has a long, rich history; now owned by the University of Virginia, the land was part of Virginia's first land grant, dating back to 1734.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2022

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