Sentence examples for homestead up from inspiring English sources

Her mother is a mute, near-catatonic presence among them; her father, who cooks meth for a living, has just skipped bail and put the Dolly homestead up as bond.

Perhaps he will make a post-Presidential career out of homesteading up there — an extraterrestrial Habitat for Humanity.

"Many people who choose to homestead have given up any chance of owning their own home, so when releasing new property we are inundated with enquiries," Mr Ireland added.

The movie's sturdy teenage heroine, Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), has a week to find her vanished, meth-cooking father or she, her young siblings and her sick mother will forfeit the family homestead he put up as bond after his latest arrest.

But I was impressed by InGrid nonetheless, and in large part because InGrid is trying to bring home security to people like myself who don't have an established homestead to wire up with ADT.

Homesteads reported covering up puddles of water in their homesteads that would provide ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes and also clearing bushes around the homesteads that provide cover for adult mosquitoes that emerge from the breeding sites.

The grand furnishings of the Twisden homestead wind up clawed, chewed and torn as Alex and Leslie's conditions worsen; the cellar goes all "Silence of the Lambs".

Soon afterwards Mr. Gates left and gave up homesteading.

In that conflict, which began in 1899, British troops destroyed thousands of Boer farms, blew up homesteads and set land and cattle ablaze.

They were one of the first couples in America, back in the 60s, to head up homesteading, and living 100% from their land.

Huge stretches of mountain terrain and parched desert did not lend themselves to successful homesteading, which tidied up the East and Great Plains states in mile after mile of tidy if monotonous surveyor's quadrants.