the land

noun

: land in the countryside that is thought of as providing a simple and good way of living

He wanted to move/get back to the land.

Examples of the land in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

City officials say the land is critical for the new downtown convention center, which has to accommodate Texas Department of Transportation’s Interstate 30 widening project and avoid building over nearby Union Pacific Railroad tracks. —Everton Bailey Jr, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026

Over millions of years, gradual changes in that gravitational landscape could shift how regional sea level is measured relative to the land. —Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026

The architect’s roots in the area run deep—his mother’s side of the family farmed the land from his boyhood—and today, the Taliesin estate functions as something of a crash course for architectural enthusiasts hoping to understand how Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked. —Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 25 Feb. 2026

Does protecting safety, fairness and dignity in women’s sports include mocking them from the highest office in the land? —Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for the land

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand