Acre

//ˈeɪ.kə//

"Acre" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The house isn't huge and it's on about two-thirds of an acre, and when we first bought it I spent several hours every week getting the lawnmower fixed and cutting the lawn, in that order.

That farmer cultivated a 200 acre plantation.

They sell land by the acre.

Dan bought an acre of land in Nevada.

An acre is a unit of measurement; Accra, the capital of Ghana, and Acre, a Brazilian state.

Layla owned a seventeen acre farm.

Tom bought an acre of land near the lake.

Tom works on a 300-acre Christmas tree farm.

They have a 10-acre property in Kabylie, Algeria.

Here, on this quiet, 56-hectare (140-acre) campus, about 500 students are immersed in contemporary Native American arts and culture.

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Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

I like my new house—there’s acres of space!

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