How to Use parkland in a Sentence

parkland

noun
  • Just keep one strip of parkland up in the air and push the rest out over the water.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Planning is set to start on the new city parkland later this year.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
  • There wasn’t much thought given to setting aside parkland when the wild was all around them.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2017
  • The city now requires a fifth of the property be set aside as parkland.
    — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The borough’s endless parklands had not yet been cut up by highways.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Outdoors lovers and civic groups bemoaned the loss of parkland that would be required.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Vistra had leased the parkland to the state at no cost for nearly 50 years.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Maslo wants to prove that a town can recoup its tax losses with new lures, such as parkland trails and a kayak launch.
    — Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2018
  • The former foundry site will be restored and become park of the parkland along the river bank.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Critics say the measure would give the city’s mayor too much power over the use of parkland.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Most of the property is parkland, and some sections are used for grazing sheep.
    — Kevin Brass, New York Times, 21 June 2017
  • The play is parkland, with mature trees framing broad, sweeping fairways and wall-to-wall grass.
    — Ken Van Vechten, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Perth Stadium sits amid open grass, water and parkland.
    — Michael Bailey, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • But some park advocates have pushed for the Shattuck to be returned to parkland.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • Their key demand is that the ROC renounce its claim to this piece of parkland.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2019
  • This includes parkland, gardens, farmlands and woods.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The $6 billion, 55-acre project would include new towers, roads and bridges and parkland.
    — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The terrain was once too boggy and hilly for construction projects and is now protected as parkland.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Three Rivers' parkland includes 43 lakes and more than 30 miles of river.
    — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • The public parkland is leased to Wild Rivers, which shares part of its revenue with the city of Irvine.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
  • The bridge will be 150 feet wide, adding more than half an acre of parkland and native vegetation.
    — Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The fires eviscerated many of the plants and trees in and around the burn zones, leaving behind barren lots and charred swaths of parkland.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Book the stand-alone five-bedroom Villa Beatrice, which sits on more than an acre of private parkland.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 19 June 2026
  • But transferring state parks could result in unique parklands being altered or closed to the broader public.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Enforcement, with cops not allowing the selling of tickets on parkland, will pay for itself.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
  • The broken fountains have been something of a poster child for the federal government’s neglect of parkland in the city.
    — Olivia George, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The center is a museum, library and parkland space that also will host special events and performances.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 15 June 2026
  • Its 17 acres of gardens meld English parklands with Jurassic groves of ferns and native pines.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The original routing was a tale of two courses in one, mixing parkland golf with a linksy Scottish-style layout.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • To make that feasible, the mayor shrank the amount of open parkland in his proposal from 47 acres to 26 acres.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022

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