How to Use landholder in a Sentence

landholder

noun
  • Until then, the king’s role was hardly more than the first among a class of landholders more or less equal in wealth and rights.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Cities and states pushed restrictions on the rights of private landholders to seek wealth at the expense of homes.
    — Richard White, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In Texas, the agency has paid $18 million to landholders over the last decade.
    — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Julian Aguilar and Kiah Collier, star-telegram, 15 Dec. 2017
  • By the time Fidel was a youngster, his father was a major landholder.
    — Anthony Depalma, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2016
  • Asili's landholders make £16 per year (around $22) from moringa seed sales, although this depends on the yield.
    — Georgia Murray, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • This appealed to Benedict, who was one of the first landholders in Pennsylvania to sign up to the program.
    — Marcello Rossi, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
  • Nature is returning, albeit in a careful compromise with landholders, who are slowly learning when to push and when to hold back.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Small landholders across the continent are increasingly getting priced out or even evicted to make way for big commercial farms.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 30 July 2017
  • Or why a large landholder farther south is thinking of planting a solar array on his fields rather than the thirsty almonds that delivered steady profit for years.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2021
  • The giant forest products company is one of the largest private landholders in the United States.
    — Fortune, 1 July 2019
  • The Company has legal permission from the local landholders and communities who have lived on the land for decades.
    — Sacramento Bee, 2 July 2024
  • First, polluting surface aquifers that provide drinking water for landholders or their animals.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • There were some court cases, but only the largest landholders with the best legal representation were compensated.
    — Adam Matthews, Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2015
  • Among the largest landholders in southern France, the Forbins managed to retain control of the castle for 500 years.
    — James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
  • Telangana, for instance, has introduced direct cash payments to landholders, a project that could lead to the phasing out of less efficient subsidies.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • Later, those skills were a nice fit for an oil and gas company that hired McNeal to secure agreements with local landholders for pipeline rights-of-way.
    — Bloomberg.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Private ranchers are by far the biggest landholders of the Central Valley’s remaining vernal pools.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 8 May 2023
  • In Queensland, landholders have been accused of poisoning kangaroos and erecting fences to prevent them from reaching water.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Smaller and poorer landholders took whatever the government offered — or wrung out small increases in settlements.
    — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Headquartered in Fairbanks, Doyon is the largest private landholder in Alaska.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Small and large landholders alike could add agricultural waste to soil, maximize the time that the soil is covered by living plants or mulch, and reduce tilling, which releases carbon dioxide.
    — Fred Krupp, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • In 1816, his followers proposed a version that would compensate former landholders but still yield a payout of 4 pounds.
    — Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Metro drawing up long-term regional plan Officials noted Metro’s role was merely as a landholder, stressing the city would operate and maintain the space.
    — Dug Begley, Houston Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
  • At the heart of the issue lies age-old traditions in management of the land, made up mostly of small plots that have become fire hazards after they were abandoned by new generations of landholders who moved to the cities.
    — Axel Bugge, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The incentives created more vibrant forests in the long term, and the income was competitive compared with less sustainable options for the landholders, such as cattle rearing.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, the ordinance on Zone 9 will remove any preservation oversight of Brown, which is the largest landholder and the most aggressive developer in that new zone.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Duchy chief executive Will Bax said the aim is to shift the estate from being a traditional landholder to something that delivers a wider social impact.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
  • The federal government is the largest landholder in the country, and state and local governments, as well as entities like transit agencies, school districts and public utilities.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
  • The DeCaLiBron Loop currently skirts the summit of Bross due to landholder concerns that have kept it closed for years.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the landholders are newcomers from out of state, though some old-timers remain—families that earned their deeds generations ago, the principal paid by ancestors who shivered through pitiless winters in tar-paper shacks.
    — Monte Reel, Bloomberg.com, 27 Oct. 2017

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