How to Use rancho in a Sentence

rancho

noun
  • Baldwin had become smitten with the rancho, which was lush and green due to the artesian wells that ran beneath its rolling pastures.
    — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Make adobe bricks, stamp leather, dip candles, corn husk dolls, churn butter, and participate in other rancho-era activities.
    — Lisa Herendeen, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Rancho Day will explore what life was like for rancho inhabitants and how those lives connect to today’s residents.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • From its fishing and rancho roots to a surfing secret to now a veritable bohemian playground, Sayuita is sleepy no more.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Soon thereafter, the Marquez and Reyes families sold off most of what remained of the rancho, including the cemetery.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • During California’s rancho period, the area was known as Cordero.
    — Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
  • During California’s rancho period, the area was known as Cordero.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • May held on and fought everyone from settlers to railway bosses to the Supreme Court in an attempt to keep any public road or rail from crossing through the rancho.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The land has a long history of ranching, used as a Mexican rancho in the 1830s and then for homesteading in later years.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The historic rancho adobe haciendas also survive today as museums.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2019
  • In 2020, however, narcos invaded the sleepy rancho and robbed, killed and kidnapped with abandon.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Calling myself a Chicano didn’t vibe with my rancho libertarian ethos, which felt the term was an antiquated one only leftists used.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • For nearly a century the 6,700-square-foot house was the headquarters of a working rancho that grew smaller and smaller as it was divided up and sold off.
    — Jennifer Rice Epstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 10 July 2017
  • The land was part of a former rancho dotted with adobes and cattle until it was divided into individual parcels in the 1880s.
    — Mary Forgione, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The single estate agaves were harvested from the Camarena family’s rancho La Ladera.
    — Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In 1896, Griffith ceded most of the rancho to the city of Los Angeles, which turned it into one of the country’s largest urban parks.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2020
  • This sets the scene for a project that includes 75 rancho estates on six-acre plots of land, roughly half of which have already been sold, as well as the first Six Senses resort in Mexico.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2024

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