Noun lives on a cattle ranch in Texas that's as big as the whole state of Rhode Island Verb My grandfather started ranching here 150 years ago. The family has ranched 10,000 acres here for the past 150 years. The family has been ranching cattle here for 150 years.
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Noun
The battle scenes were shot at a ranch in Irvine, CA, a location whose encampment covered 5,000 acres, with 1,000 extras and technicians bivouacked in tents like doughboys. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022 Clarice Steg, left, and Maggie Higgins carry irrigation pipes at the ranch. Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2022 Early Wednesday, hours after her concession speech at a sprawling ranch in Jackson, Cheney announced her plans for the anti-Trump organization to potentially blockade his path back to Pennsylvania Avenue. Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022 Edward Dominguez, a Las Vegas, N.M., resident, told the Albuquerque Journal how the flooding came after the wildfire destroyed not just his family’s 300-year-old ranch but also the small chapel his mother had built. Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 23 July 2022 According to the blog post, Paige cooked up a whole spread of BBQ dishes at the family's ranch. Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2022 Janssen Bruckner LLC are looking to build ranch-style single-family spaces in 33 buildings next to Abendschein Park at 641 and 819R E. Drexel Ave. Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2022 The brewery’s new taproom and beer garden are a lovely spot to shoot pool, play shuffleboard, and sample micro-seasonal brews featuring local produce grown on the owner’s ranch.Sunset Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022 For the July 14 shipment tracked by The Times, Mr. Felipe’s ranch isn’t listed on the site.New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
Verb
The Queen and Prince Philip traveled all the way to California to meet with President Reagan in 1983, touring his Santa Barbara ranch with the then-POTUS and First Lady Nancy. Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022 Having no access to property records meant personally pinpointing on which ranch the deforestation had occurred. Terrence Mccoy, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022 Workers are clearing pads for about 600 wind turbines on a sprawling cattle ranch slightly larger than the city of Los Angeles. Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022 Dipping sauces include fry sauce (great with both the tenders and the fries) or ranch. Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022 The emblematic cowboy hats — some fetching more than $5,000 — have been de rigueur among rodeo riders and ranch hands across the American West for a century and a half.BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022 The spot features cowboys and ranch hands wrestling and branding cattle. Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Jan. 2022 Fans have a choice of 11 different sauces for the special deal and get free fries and ranch with every order! Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2022 Don’t just take my (incredibly biased) word for it—make lavender buttermilk ranch yourself!Bon Appétit, 31 Jan. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Mexican Spanish rancho small ranch, from Spanish, camp, hut & Spanish dialect, small farm, from Old Spanish ranchearse to take up quarters, from Middle French se ranger to take up a position, from ranger to set in a row — more at range