How to Use homestead in a Sentence

homestead

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  • They decided to farm the old homestead.
  • The couple moved from a homestead to Naknek, and split up when Liz was 9 years old.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The exemption amount is the same as the homestead exemption.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The desk built from the pieces of my mother’s family homestead.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
  • My parents can sell the house and buy a prefab unit, five times smaller than the homestead.
    — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Celebrate the running of the roses on the front lawn of this historic homestead.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2022
  • As Tunde and Sadako place their treasures in their car, the old homestead is visible.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Her husband, Chris, said the old Attebury homestead, named for a former owner of much of the land in the area, was lost in the blaze.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The centuries-old building sits several feet from where Sam and Mary’s homestead was in the 1800s.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • An old homestead is the site of an annual pig slaughter.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 June 2022
  • And tours of Faraway Ranch, a homestead from the 1880s, are conducted when staffing permits.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
  • The homestead is also a 12-minute walk from the Lombard Metra station near Main Street.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • That year, her husband, George, urged her to advocate for a park near their homestead.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
  • How could so many people not know about the homestead exemption?
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • This once spooky house on the hill doesn’t have a fraction of the recognition as the family’s other homestead.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 July 2022
  • Only one property in Texas can be claimed as a homestead.
    — Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • At the center of the woods, off Haven Beach Road, was a solitary and dilapidated Colonial homestead that burned to the ground.
    — Bree Sposato, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There is movement in the thick, brown earth: Tiny earthworms being disturbed from their homestead.
    — Sibi Arasu, ajc, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The Grand Canyon is just 30 miles west of the property, which is on the family homestead of the owner’s ancestral sheep camp.
    — J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 1 June 2022
  • This homestead was burned in what became known as the 1694 Oyster River Massacre.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • In her honor, James and Margaret founded the Dutton family homestead at the site of her grave.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Lo Duca and his wife, Joži, set out from there to see the Svečina hills and soon after made an offer on a homestead with an old wine cellar.
    — Ann Abel, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • So all of his assets are protected by the homestead laws in Florida.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2022
  • Raney seems to sincerely believe that the homestead life is the ideal for everyone.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The couple grow fruit, brew beer and raise dairy sheep on the homestead, which is surrounded by a forest where cellphone service is scarce.
    — Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • When Maasai leaders refused to send their people away, the police burned as many as a hundred and fifty homesteads.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • It’s a homestead that has been turned into a tourist destination.
    — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 15 July 2022
  • The definition of a homestead varies, and often depends on who’s doing the defining.
    — Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
  • The evening prayer session and dinner, held at a homestead about 15 miles west of Phoenix at the far western end of the Gila River community was Nosie’s third stop of the day.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Today’s Capricorn new moon asks you to consider the health and happiness of your homestead.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024

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