How to Use acre in a Sentence

acre

noun

• The house sits on two acres of land.
• They own hundreds of acres of farmland.
• With luck, the herd will clear an acre in roughly two to five days.
  — Camille Sauers, Chron, 30 Sep. 2021
• The problem is the flood, the excess acre-footage that Cameron needs to make his plan work.
  — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
• Maybe an acre in size, the pond had been stocked with catfish, bass and bluegills.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• At the time, the 2.1 million acres were deemed of modest value.
  — Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Back in the Bay, the Howard Terminal site in Oakland was 55 acres.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• Farmers would have to foot more than 70 percent of the bill — about $23 an acre.
  — Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• The third, on what is now Barack Obama Boulevard, is a tenth of an acre.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• Mesa allows up to 10 chickens on the first half acre or less.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• Fire-Rescue tweeted that the fire, dubbed the Batavia fire, had been stopped at about an acre.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2022
• The six-bedroom, five-bathroom house sits on over an acre of land.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• Nearly half an acre should be set aside for open space.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• There are roughly 300 ponds, each about an acre in size, across the farms in Martinsville.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2022
• Around 300 acres of salt marsh on the west side of the causeway will be protected by the project, the release says.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• Crop yield per acre has also been lower this year than the last.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2022
• The first acre of the 6.5-acre organic farm will be planted this fall at the Campus of Life.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022
• The two distinct buildings sit on 25 acres of land with views of the Catskill mountains, a creek, and open-canopied woods.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2024
• Two of the parcels are long and skinny—measuring about an acre.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• During the winter months, up to 4,100 acres of the land will serve as the terrain for the Mayflower Resort.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• The compound spans over an acre and combines two parcels on a corner lot.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
• The house has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and sits on just under an acre of land.
  — Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
• It’s for yards up to 1 acre in size, which is smaller than the other mowers on this list.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022
• That’s a little over half an acre less than the park proposed in Issue 9.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2022
• The Estates is a $1.8 billion project set on a prime six-acre site lined with 1.5 acres of beachfront.
  — David Kaufman, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
• An acre of the state's ubiquitous crop can put enough moisture in the air to fill a swimming pool.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2022
• An acre-foot could supply about three households for a year, though much of the water goes to farms.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022
• An island of lawn beyond the firepit seating area and a four-car garage complete the one acre of grounds.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• The estate building is 3,000 square-feet, and it is located on eight acres of picturesque land.
  — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
• Photo : Matthew Millman The property spans about 15 acres of rolling hills.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2025