homesteader

Example Sentences

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“I also had this growing desire to be a homesteader for real. And then after a while I was just like, ‘I grew a tomato!

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

It all goes back to her father, Isaac Newton, the homesteader, and his perennial financial problems.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

As homesteader, activist and author Dominic Lamontagne told us, "Since everyone benefits from the act of eating, everyone should be pitching in."

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023

It’s 1915 California, and Adelaide, a young Black woman, flees for Montana after her parents die, hoping to become a homesteader.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2023

I narrated my college life in exacting detail to both my parents like a homesteader dutifully providing dispatches from the frontier.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama