Examples of acreage in a Sentence
A large portion of the park's acreage is forest.
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The movement’s key players were armchair visionaries—or, like Henry David Thoreau, determined to see the universe in the minimal acreage of a New England village.
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James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Between the lines: Detroit's sheer size — nearly 140 square miles — hinders its acreage score, which measures the percentage of the city's overall area that's dedicated to parkland.
—Joe Guillen, Axios, 28 May 2025
The land to be swapped for the Guana River land included acreage in the Big Bend Swamp/Holopaw Ranch area of Osceola County, and near Lake Harney in Volusia County on the edge of the Little Big Econ State Forest, according to a proposal submitted to the state.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 May 2025
While the policy was officially lifted in 2018, the government continues to provide subsidies to farmers who reduce the amount of acreage used for rice production and instead use that land to produce other crops, like soybeans.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 8 May 2025
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James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Between the lines: Detroit's sheer size — nearly 140 square miles — hinders its acreage score, which measures the percentage of the city's overall area that's dedicated to parkland.
—Joe Guillen, Axios, 28 May 2025
The land to be swapped for the Guana River land included acreage in the Big Bend Swamp/Holopaw Ranch area of Osceola County, and near Lake Harney in Volusia County on the edge of the Little Big Econ State Forest, according to a proposal submitted to the state.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 May 2025
While the policy was officially lifted in 2018, the government continues to provide subsidies to farmers who reduce the amount of acreage used for rice production and instead use that land to produce other crops, like soybeans.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 8 May 2025
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“Acreage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acreage. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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acreage
noun
acre·age
ˈā-k(ə-)rij 
: area in acres
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