How to Use easement in a Sentence

easement

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  • The trailhead is at the end of a fenced easement at the end of Brandis Way.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Last year, for the first time, the agency reduced the term of a new easement, from 55 years to 25 years.
    — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The land is now owned by the partnership, subject to the easement.
    — Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • As part of the grant, the property is subject to a 10-year easement.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Semitropic would pay the water mogul $40 million for the easement on the land.
    — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Khosla, in turn, offered to sell an easement to the state for $30 million.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 25 Jan. 2020
  • That year, the Roberts’ trust gated the Loggers Trail easement.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Part of the easement is needed to cross Little Mazarn Creek.
    — David Showers, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2021
  • About a third of the 3.5-acre lot would be off-limits because of easements and the wetland, said Welch.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • The rules of the easement continue to govern the property.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
  • That's all thanks to a new conservation easement on the Orme Ranch.
    — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Aukes said the group never applied to the County Board to have the easement transferred from LaDuke.
    — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Howard Wharf LP will provide the five-foot easement on the southerly side of the right-of-way to make up for the fact that the pump station won’t be moved.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The property includes a swim easement and a three-car garage.
    — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Carter said Cooper spoke to him, demanding to see the easement.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 26 June 2023
  • If the property were sold, the new owner would be bound by the terms of the easement, according to the agreement.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The state would also grant Kohler an easement over an additional 1.8 acres of the park.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2022
  • The piece includes a 2-acre pond that would have a conservation easement placed on it.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The court ruled that the Water Works could not be both the owner and enforcer of a conservation easement.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Scores of them have already signed easements, and some are actively cheering on the projects.
    — Mitch Smith Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • A lot of farmers up here are providing easements for the water.
    — Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The trees were deemed by the county to be too close to an easement with utility lines underneath.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The revocation of the easement requires the pipeline to stop sending oil by May 2021.
    — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Perhaps slowly picking up chunks of land and signing easement deals isn’t just a dream.
    — Christine Peterson, Outside Online, 15 June 2022
  • But what about improvements that are made subsequent to the easement?
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • But easements or no, the cemetery hasn’t gone untended.
    — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2020
  • And most likely, the decision will come down to how the court decides to interpret, once again, the 140-year-old fishing easement.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2022
  • In an arms-length negotiation, the tribe and BNSF reached an easement agreement in 1991.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Our property abuts the easement surrounding the pond but ends at least 20 feet from the maximum water level line.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
  • Friction point: The conservancy says it was not notified that the building would be sold or that the new owners had sold furnishings protected by the easement to 20cdesign, a Dallas art dealer.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024

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