How to Use homestead in a Sentence

homestead

1 of 2 noun
  • They decided to farm the old homestead.
  • The couple moved from a homestead to Naknek, and split up when Liz was 9 years old.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The exemption amount is the same as the homestead exemption.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The desk built from the pieces of my mother’s family homestead.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
  • My parents can sell the house and buy a prefab unit, five times smaller than the homestead.
    Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Celebrate the running of the roses on the front lawn of this historic homestead.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2022
  • As Tunde and Sadako place their treasures in their car, the old homestead is visible.
    Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Her husband, Chris, said the old Attebury homestead, named for a former owner of much of the land in the area, was lost in the blaze.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The centuries-old building sits several feet from where Sam and Mary’s homestead was in the 1800s.
    Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • An old homestead is the site of an annual pig slaughter.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 June 2022
  • And tours of Faraway Ranch, a homestead from the 1880s, are conducted when staffing permits.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
  • The homestead is also a 12-minute walk from the Lombard Metra station near Main Street.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • That year, her husband, George, urged her to advocate for a park near their homestead.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
  • How could so many people not know about the homestead exemption?
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • This once spooky house on the hill doesn’t have a fraction of the recognition as the family’s other homestead.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 July 2022
  • Only one property in Texas can be claimed as a homestead.
    Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • At the center of the woods, off Haven Beach Road, was a solitary and dilapidated Colonial homestead that burned to the ground.
    Bree Sposato, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There is movement in the thick, brown earth: Tiny earthworms being disturbed from their homestead.
    Sibi Arasu, ajc, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The Grand Canyon is just 30 miles west of the property, which is on the family homestead of the owner’s ancestral sheep camp.
    J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 1 June 2022
  • This homestead was burned in what became known as the 1694 Oyster River Massacre.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • In her honor, James and Margaret founded the Dutton family homestead at the site of her grave.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Lo Duca and his wife, Joži, set out from there to see the Svečina hills and soon after made an offer on a homestead with an old wine cellar.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • So all of his assets are protected by the homestead laws in Florida.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2022
  • Raney seems to sincerely believe that the homestead life is the ideal for everyone.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The couple grow fruit, brew beer and raise dairy sheep on the homestead, which is surrounded by a forest where cellphone service is scarce.
    Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • When Maasai leaders refused to send their people away, the police burned as many as a hundred and fifty homesteads.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • It’s a homestead that has been turned into a tourist destination.
    Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 15 July 2022
  • The definition of a homestead varies, and often depends on who’s doing the defining.
    Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
  • The evening prayer session and dinner, held at a homestead about 15 miles west of Phoenix at the far western end of the Gila River community was Nosie’s third stop of the day.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Today’s Capricorn new moon asks you to consider the health and happiness of your homestead.
    USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
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homestead

2 of 2 verb
  • They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.
  • His trading post and homestead at the mouth of the river were the seed from which our great city grew.
    Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • Tour the first floor of Stonewalls, the 1720 Hayes homestead where the family resided.
    courant.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • There’s a lot of this weird arrogance with the homesteading stuff these days.
    Ashlea Halpern, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Caring for the plants, much like homesteading, comes easy for Markey, who grew up on a farm.
    Author: Cheryl Upshaw, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2019
  • There’s a lot of this weird arrogance with the homesteading stuff these days.
    Ashlea Halpern, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
  • To lighten the load, politicians have awarded us homestead exemptions that serve as discounts.
    Dallas News, 12 May 2022
  • My great-great-grandfather homesteaded the place in 1907.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Will keeps their homesteading all but invisible in a nature preserve just west of Portland.
    Colin Covert, kansascity, 12 July 2018
  • His parents homesteaded and lived on a ranch raising animals, miles away from any town and living through the depression.
    Karen Brainard, Ramona Sentinel, 2 July 2017
  • He was born in the tiny town of St. John in eastern Washington, where his family homesteaded in 1882, before statehood.
    Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • Then again, Blane Barksdale probably blended easily with the homesteading folk he was believed to be hiding among, Adams said.
    Chelsea Curtis, azcentral, 11 Sep. 2019
  • So Rubinson led the charge to make the family homestead less dated and more comfortable with a full-on renovation.
    Laura Kostelny, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Will keeps their homesteading all but invisible in Forest Park, a nature preserve in the mountains just west of Portland, Oregon.
    Colin Covert, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
  • Bonine, who owned the land, divided it into 1-acre lots and offered it to African-Americans to homestead in exchange for clearing the property.
    Karen Torme Olson, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • Farther south, Holzwarth Historic Site spins tales of a German immigrant family that homesteaded the valley in the 1860s.
    Joe Yogerst, National Geographic, 8 May 2019
  • Her paternal grandparents homesteaded in Chickaloon in the ’40s and ’50s.
    Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Citizens who homestead will potentially see a small tax break (average less than $150 a year).
    Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Homestead police eventually found the then-3-year-old boy and arrested Clanetha Davis.
    David J. Neal, miamiherald, 1 June 2017
  • Tempering the haute with the homesteaded, the opulent with the bracingly simple, Beran and his crew rejigger expectations of what a tasting menu can be.
    Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The couple homesteaded in a pool house next door to Mr. Peralta’s beloved grandmother, with whom Ms. Howard immediately bonded.
    Louise Rafkin, New York Times, 16 June 2017
  • History: Drue Bailey, an ex-Confederate soldier tired of wandering the West, homesteaded here in 1869.
    Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2019
  • While most homestead women at the time were intimately involved in the work of clearing, building and homemaking in every sense of the word, Marie’s role was limited to conventional duties of cooking and cleaning — and soon, childbearing.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The legend originated with a Mrs. Johnson who homesteaded nearby and was very concerned about her daughters’ reputations.
    Tom Noel, The Know, 24 Aug. 2019
  • For properties that aren’t homesteaded — owner-occupied — the foreclosure process dramatically accelerates, from a three-year time frame to just one.
    Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019
  • But disabled people who are homesteaded receive an additional tax discount.
    Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Even before people like Cliven Bundy started challenging the federal government in armed standoffs, there was a longer tradition of libertarian thinking that dates back to at least the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s, when homesteading was ended.
    Max Holleran, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2019
  • They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.
  • His trading post and homestead at the mouth of the river were the seed from which our great city grew.
    Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • Tour the first floor of Stonewalls, the 1720 Hayes homestead where the family resided.
    courant.com, 17 Sep. 2021

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