Examples of acre in a Sentence

Noun The house sits on two acres of land. They own hundreds of acres of farmland.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The acre-plus site was a tire dealership when the mall opened in 1970, but that business closed long ago. — John King, SFChronicle.com, "As we kept our distance from one another, our public spaces revealed their new uses," 1 Jan. 2021 The wilderness that surrounded Trevor lies within the 1.7-million-acre Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest. — Jr Sullivan, Field & Stream, "F&S Classics: The Vanishing," 23 Dec. 2020 The groups on Tuesday filed requests with an Anchorage judge for a preliminary injunction to prevent the Interior Department’s planned Jan. 6 auction of oil and gas leases across the refuge’s 1.56-million-acre coastal plain. — Jennifer A Dlouhy, Bloomberg.com, "Environmentalists Ask Court to Block Arctic Oil Auction," 15 Dec. 2020 Decrescenzo said that the purchaser would like one of the lines drawn on the parcel map adjusted, resulting in a full acre to be transferred. — Steve Smith, courant.com, "Simsbury selectmen discuss re-draw of parcel in bike path easement deal," 4 Dec. 2020 Shortly before 12:20, the San Marcos Fire Department tweeted that the size was about a quarter-acre, moving slowly but pushed by wind out of the east. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Crews keep San Marcos brush fire to 3 acres," 3 Dec. 2020 Today, the banners fill the three-and-a-half-acre field across the street from Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium and are now spilling over into nearby medians. — Sydney Combs, National Geographic, "How art helps us make sense of COVID-19's incomprehensible toll," 18 Nov. 2020 Conservation groups decried the proposal as a threat to the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area, a wetland complex in the 23-million-acre reserve that supports migratory birds and calving grounds for the Teshekpuk Lake caribou herd. — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, "Environmental groups sue Trump administration to stop ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project," 17 Nov. 2020 The 16-million-acre forest is North America’s largest intact rainforest, home to diverse wildlife and old-growth trees. — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, "Trump removes logging restrictions on millions of acres of untouched Alaska forest," 28 Oct. 2020

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History and Etymology for acre

Noun

Middle English aker, acre, going back to Old English æcer, going back to Germanic *akraz (whence also, with k geminate in West Germanic, Old Saxon akkar "field," Old High German ackar, Old Norse akr "arable land," Gothic akrs "field"), going back to Indo-European *h₂eǵros, whence also Latin ager, "piece of land, field," Greek agrós, Sanskrit ájrah

Note: This Indo-European noun is traditionally linked to the verbal base *h₂eǵ- "drive (cattle, etc.)" (see agent, on the assumption that *h₂eǵ-ros originally meant "pasture," "fallow land," onto which the cattle were driven, and later developed other senses, as "cultivated field." The semantic plausibility of such a derivation has recently been questioned, however.

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