5 sentences with 'holdings'
Example sentences and phrases with the word holdings and other words derived from it.
• « Crop failures caused these farmers to disappear, their lands devoured by the holdings of wealthy aristocrats. As had happened in the Roman Republic so long ago, the problem was that there were no soldiers to recruit, and armies dwindled. »
• « The problem facing the Franks was that Frankish tradition stipulated that lands were to be divided among the sons after the death of the father. Thus, with each generation, a family's holdings could be divided into separate, smaller parts. Over time, this could reduce a large and powerful territory into a large number of small and weak ones. »
• « The kings ruled the region around Paris (called Île-de-France, meaning 'island of France'), but their influence went much further, as they extended their holdings. »
• « Although the Portuguese did not rule an immense land mass, their strategic holdings of islands and coastal ports gave them almost unrivalled control of nautical trade routes and a worldwide empire of trading posts during the 15th century. »
• « Virginia landowners, in particular, eagerly sought to diversify their holdings beyond tobacco, the price of which had stagnated and depleted the fertility of land along the Chesapeake Bay. »