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Example sentences for "three acres"

  • As his financial resources have increased, owing to his untiring industry and capable management, he has extended the boundaries of his place by purchase until it now embraces three hundred and thirty-three acres.

  • In 1913 he traded the latter property for seven hundred and thirteen acres adjoining his home place, which thus was extended, becoming a tract of nine hundred and fifty-three acres.

  • Haight's beautiful Cedar Cliff Inn is located, and Cromwell Lake with an area of fifty-three acres and an elevation of 740 feet.

  • Gerhard Rademacher, during whose ministry the parsonage was built and the cemetery of three acres acquired.

  • To seize three hundred and thirty-three acres in such an important city as this, was an act of no small significance.

  • One man holds ten acres and pays three shillings for them; another has eight and a half acres and gives a pound of pepper to his lord; a third is possessed of twenty-three acres, pays 4s.

  • My father left me three acres of land, Sing ivy, sing ivy; My father left me three acres of land, Sing holly, go whistle and ivy!

  • My father left me three acres of land, Sing sing, sing sing, My father left me three acres of land, Sing holly, go whistle and sing.

  • On the 13th, three acres of wheat were sown with four bushels of seed.

  • Three acres of wheat were sown in Arthur's vale on the 16th, and by the 21st eight acres of wheat were up, and had a promising appearance.

  • He sowed a few acres of wheat, two or three acres of oats and planted two or three acres of corn and of course, we had a garden.

  • We bought it, one hundred and sixty acres of land, three acres broken, a small stock of hay not burned, his sod stable and board shanty.

  • In the meantime, however, six squatters built a cabin upon the tract and cleared two or three acres, but Crawford paid them five pounds for their improvements and induced them to move on.

  • As ten acres of the yard-land were probably always in fallow, three acres of wheat was a heavier gafol-yrth than a fairly gathered tithe would have been.

  • We were never given any money, but were able to get a little money this way: our Master would let us have two or three acres of land each year to plant for ourselves, and we could have what we raised on it.

  • We could not allow our work on these two or three acres to interfere with Master's work, but we had to work our little crops on Sundays.

  • Now remind you, all the Negroes didn't get these two or three acres, only good masters allowed their slaves to have a little crop of their own.

  • Illustration: THREE ACRES--FRONT VIEW] Like many of the farmhouses in eastern Massachusetts, it had that peculiar beauty which consisted largely in its simple and straightforward solution of the problems at hand.

  • Illustration: THREE ACRES, FROM THE MAIN ROAD] There is a house that has been given rare individuality in this way at Duxbury, Massachusetts.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three acres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    introduction should; papal legate; smaller quantity; three batteries; three bays; three cards; three colours; three dozen; three fourths; three frigates; three gallons; three hundred and thirty; three large; three pieces; three rows; three slices; three spoonfuls; three stages; three stars; three steps; three table; three teaspoonfuls; three turns; three vertical; valid only; would have been better