Sentence examples for acres like from inspiring English sources

He tends his 24 acres like a garden and handcrafts his concentrated, slow-maturing wine in a winery no bigger than a one-car garage.

A Legacy of the '50s Lehigh Acres, like much of Florida and many suburbs nationwide, was born with speculation in its DNA.

And whether the prison sprawls over thousands of acres like the penitentiary farms of the Deep South, or compresses its convicts on tight tiers, the air within holds a particular density, a palpable weight created not only by the crimes the inmates have committed but also by the ownership we have taken of the convicts, whether we acknowledge it or not.

She and Norma, the poet's sister, became friends, Ms. Oliver recalled in "Our World," and so she "more or less lived there for the next six or seven years, running around the 800 acres like a child, helping Norma, or at least being company to her".

Since it opened in 2001, the CAS has rescued about 3,500 farm animals, many which run underfoot on these 110 acres, like the free-ranging creatures they are now fortunate to be.

Since it opened in 2001, the CAS has rescued about 3,500 farm animals, many who run underfoot on these 110 acres, like the free-ranging creatures they are now fortunate to be.

Mr. Acres likes to say he's putting the "fun back in fundamentalism," and he is serious about this.

FALLBROOK — Jim Russell's macadamia orchard looks like a park, 3 acres of holly-like evergreens growing above closely cropped grass.

In Kemah, Tex., 20 miles south of Houston on Galveston Bay, Fertitta has created a 40-acre carnival-like complex: ten restaurants, a hotel, a marina, dancing water fountains, a Disney-like train ride, lots of retail outlets and a marine-themed eatery called Aquarium-patrons munch on deep-fried fish while watching their close cousins swim around in huge saltwater tanks.

The other pillar of Domènech's World Heritage status is the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul), set on 40 park-like acres at the northern edge of the Eixample.

That was when the Sloan-Kettering CanceRyeesearcampustitute sold a Rye campus, with 41 park-like acres, to a company that has built 38 large houses, commanding prices up to $1.5 million, on the property.