How to Use landholding in a Sentence

landholding

noun
  • The chief stumbling block to agreement was the enormous western landholdings of some of the states.
    — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • All his remaining landholdings are now in the name of his children, Duterte said.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • All the revenue comes from a farming operation on its desert landholdings.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Too many farmers rely on the most basic of technologies and own smaller landholdings that preclude economies of scale.
    — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2019
  • Taxes on the sale of land, in contrast, are hefty, which is one reason for the failure to consolidate landholdings.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • Electables often have large landholdings or other wealth, or are religious leaders.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 8 July 2018
  • Early political figures and observers pointed to small-scale landholding and the farmers who toiled that land as a bedrock of democracy.
    — Made By History, TIME, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Both the Queen and Prince Charles possess large semiprivate ancestral landholdings that serve as wellsprings of their wealth.
    — David McClure, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2019
  • Much of the mountain is protected by nature preserves and former Hawaiian royal landholdings not normally open to the public.
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The financing allowed Green Eagle to buy out Louis Dreyfus to invest in new palm oil mills and increase its landholdings.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2016
  • Schemes of collectivization sought to overturn inequalities in landholding.
    — Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • The couple’s lot was once part of the Belk family’s landholdings on the peninsula, BNN reported.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Elktonia Beach — which was also part of the Carr family’s original landholding and is now a small Annapolis city park — is all that’s left.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
  • This bottleneck is further complicated with the decreasing size of agricultural landholdings in the country.
    — S Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 27 May 2020
  • If the logic of Cowichan is upheld, there is scarcely a landholding in British Columbia—or much of the rest of Canada—for which ownership is secure.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2025
  • On Saturday afternoon, the evacuation area was expanded to the private landholdings north of Glade Ranches as well.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Fiennes is the conservation manager of the Holkham Estate, one of Britain’s most important private landholdings.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Small landholdings and uncertain monsoonal rain make India one of the world’s most expensive places to farm, while the country’s rural economy provides few other job opportunities.
    — Pratik Parija, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2017
  • Living on the counter-plantation, or the lakou, involves relying upon small-scale landholding to resist the oppressions of the traditional plantation, the factory, and more recently, the industrial farm.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Historian Terry Bouton has argued compellingly that most of the framers, landholding elites, deeply mistrusted the mass of American countrymen, and saw democracy as a wild, unruly stallion that needed to be tamed.
    — Matthew Redmond august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Antek’s ornery, new-widower dad, Maciej (Mirosław Baka) is the wealthiest man in the region, but refuses to hand over any part of his substantial landholdings to his children leaving his strapping son brooding and resentful.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Established in 1903, the estate describes itself as Santorini’s largest private vineyard owner, with landholdings exceeding 120 hectares.
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The company started out in 1963 as a timber and real estate management company for Duke Energy’s landholdings, known as Crescent Resources.
    — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Te Mata Estate’s original winery was part of English immigrant John Chambers’s landholdings at Te Mata Station.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 1 May 2026
  • The Patels of Gujarat, for instance, are a prosperous and politically powerful rural caste who began in the late 1980s to transfer their rural landholdings into industrial investment.
    — Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2016

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