How to Use landowner in a Sentence

landowner

noun
  • The landowners didn’t want to wait that long.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The team thinks the deceased may have been wealthy landowners.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The city of Boise is now listed as the landowner.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Our focus is to sell to a private landowner that doesn’t want to sell hunts.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • When the landowner found a knife on the ground, the two had a confrontation.
    — Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In the past, landowners cut down the trees to fuel fires to process sugar cane.
    — Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The government will have to buy it from landowners, which can be a tricky process.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In my view, many of those landowners do not want to continue farming.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Pipelines fund landowner trusts.
    — Warren Wimmer, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
  • The result was that only white male landowners were allowed to vote.
    — Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
  • Meanwhile a local landowner claimed that Brooks had poached the bull.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2025
  • There were no cattle, and the landowner would be grateful if someone would shoot the pests.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Some landowners worry the power lines could cross near their homes and ranches.
    — CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Once sold, Needham will split the finder’s fee with the landowner.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Traditional landowners are paid for the use of their land.
    — Michelle Duff, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Private landowners have raised objections to the seizure of their land.
    — Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • Still, the landowner had continued to find pieces of wreckage for years.
    — Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • Some give extra voting power to landowners based on amount of acreage — more acres equal more votes.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • A day would arise in early spring when a fellow landowner would knock on the door and ask after him.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The well is next to the farm’s barn and only about 100 yards from the landowners’ house.
    — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • The royal family is one of the largest landowners.
    — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 21 Mar. 2026
  • In mobile home parks, tenants lease their spaces from the landowners but own the homes placed on the land.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • But what about the other 90% owned by private landowners?
    — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Dec. 2025
  • For landowners watching their pastures, water wells and night sky, here’s where things stand.
    — Emily Holshouser. Produced With Ai Assistance, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2026
  • Renters would need the landowner’s permission.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Cody set to work and found us a couple landowner tags on a big ranch north of the town of Burlington.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The state also issued a few permits to kill the birds to local landowners.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Farmhands toil dawn to dusk for the equivalent of about $12 a day in the fields of wealthy landowners.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
  • How big is this issue to landowners, really?
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • The action was deemed beneficial to both the city and the landowner.
    — Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'landowner.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: