land grant

noun

: a grant of land made by the government especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges

Examples of land grant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Meetings between land grant holders and Harrison quickly fell apart, however. —

Elise Schmelzer, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024 In 1960, a lumberman from North Carolina, Jack Taylor, bought the ranch and closed access to the residents of the valley with land grant rights. —

Elise Schmelzer, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024 Since no one was willing to bet on a newfangled technology on what was then the American frontier, the railroad remained a dream until it was rescued by U.S. Sen. Stephen Douglas in 1849, who got a federal land grant for a railroad, the first ever. —

Andrew Johnston, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2024 Best to look for land grant university research reports rather than somebody’s brother-in-law’s cousin who’s got a big following on his bottle cap-collecting podcast! —

Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for land grant

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