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
  • The home sits on just under half an acre, has a three-car garage and a pool in the backyard.
    — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 14 May 2021
  • The large circular room is the sixth-largest room of the cave and is about a quarter-acre in size.
    — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 14 June 2021
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • There’s also more than a half acre of park space at that level.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 13 May 2021
  • 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
  • For an estate vibe, The Applewood Manor is a stunning home set on an acre in the heart of the city.
    — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 21 June 2021
  • The compound spans over an acre and combines two parcels on a corner lot.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The company charges per acre at the same rate the farmer would pay for chemicals.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 July 2021
  • 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
  • Since its discovery four hours ago, Assist/bdc/jordan Fire has burned five acres of private land.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 17 May 2025
  • The desert cabin, which sits on 130 acres of private land and can comfortably fit up to six, was designed by the local interior design team Acme 5.
    — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 24 Apr. 2025

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