How to Use landowner in a Sentence

landowner

noun
  • The team thinks the deceased may have been wealthy landowners.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Bazille, the son of a Protestant landowner from the south of France, moved to Paris to pursue art in the early 1860s.
    Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Once sold, Needham will split the finder’s fee with the landowner.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • One of the best features of onX is the ability to view any landowner’s name and address.
    Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • While Oprah is the biggest landowner in Maui among the celeb set, the island is no stranger to homes owned by A-listers.
    Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That’s what took him to the Yolo County farm — to call attention to the landowner’s recharging project.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The deal required buying out the landowners in Mount Pleasant and tearing down dozens of homes.
    Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • With the landowner’s permission, researchers cut out a small block of soil and brought it back to their lab in the nearby city of Frauenfeld.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Breuer met with the landowner’s daughter in hopes of convincing the family to preserve the space.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Darwall, and any other landowner who wanted to, could kick campers out right away.
    Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • On the other side, for landowners who have put their blood, sweat and tears into the property, handing it over isn’t easy.
    Cara Nixon, oregonlive, 17 July 2023
  • In the past, the Reedy Creek board was elected by the district’s landowners, which effectively put Disney in charge of the district.
    Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But those arrests could be conducted only on private land, and with the consent of the landowner.
    J. David Goodman, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Sprouse and hundreds of other rural landowners in Missouri have put up a fierce fight against the Grain Belt Express.
    Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The film, set in 1901, focuses on three men hired by a Spanish landowner to mark out his property.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 27 May 2023
  • With a few plywood barriers, cement cubes, and a length of chain, the tribe turned the tables on the landowners and their title companies.
    Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Crawley accessed a slave schedule compiled by landowner Thomas Taylor Stark in the mid-1800s.
    Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In the 19th century, landowners built a lot of streets and named them after their daughters or wives, which was a popular wedding present back then.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • Although married white women were granted the right to own property by law in the 1800s, the law wasn't designed to enable a wave of women landowners.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The only other Black proprietors and landowners in Booker Park were men.
    Teri Williams, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Based on the tombs and the treasures within, the deceased were likely wealthy landowners or high-ranking residents, the museum said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Under Arizona state law, if the value of the land decreases because of a zoning change, the city is required to compensate the landowner.
    Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Still, many of the stores are already in development, with Apple having agreed to leases with landowners.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 1 June 2023
  • Grand designs When construction began in April 2013, neighbors thought the landowners were building a church.
    Jennifer Mazi, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In the coming years, the requirements of the groundwater law are expected to force landowners to leave large portions of the valley’s farmland dry and fallow.
    Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • These lands are valued as real estate and Thorne said few landowners pay to maintain or reforest them.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In the spring of 2020, the city attorney created the Drug and Nuisance Abatement Team to hold landowners accountable for keeping their properties clean and free of crime and blight.
    Greg Garrison | Ggarrison@al.com, al, 31 May 2023
  • Previously, Disney had de facto control of the board as the district's largest landowner.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Each year, The Land Report documents the biggest landowners in America.
    USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Left to deal with the fallout, the landowner’s wife and children are quickly exposed to the limits, as well as the terrors, of colonialism, in the face of Indigenous people who refuse to keep bowing down.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023

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