Example sentences for: lands

How can you use “lands” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • First of the national rulers to take the title of sei-i tai-shogun (“barbarian-subduing great general”), Minamoto expanded and consolidated his power by confiscating lands from some of the defeated Taira and redistributing them to his samurai vassals.

  • Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.

  • Although many Scottish nobles were dedicated to the cause of independence, others either bore grudges against the ruling king or held lands in England that they feared to lose.

  • It can grow in sand; it can grow in bogs; and because of a symbiotic relationship with a wide range of fungi, it can grow in stony or peaty lands that provide no nourishment to ordinary plants.

  • Complete districts from that time are still in place, replete with multi-story houses (called tenements or “lands”), churches, taverns, and tollhouses.


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