How to Use grassland in a Sentence

grassland

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  • Soaring views of the grasslands can be seen from the home.
    — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
  • Opting for the return of the grassland might not be a bad idea.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The Facebook post claims the video shows the North Pole, but the footage shows a dry grassland in the foreground.
    — Dezimey Kum, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The fires went from the flammable grasslands onto the houses and buildings.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Then, the basin was home to prairie-like grasslands, stands of conifer trees and a large body of water known as Lake Otero.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • On the southwest edge of town, the power plant and mine punctuate the grasslands where deer and elk roam.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The trees leave less land for ranching and push out grassland birds, which can't adapt to woods, said Twidwell.
    — Tammy Webber The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The Eurasian steppe is a vast curtain of grassland that stretches from Hungary to Manchuria.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Neat rows of vines, their leaves chartreuse with spring growth, met the untamed beauty of the high-desert grasslands.
    — Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • As winter begins to close, nature lovers head to the grasslands around Wray to see the courtship dance of the greater prairie chickens and hear their loud calls.
    — Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Snaking through the grasslands was the 38-mile Trans-Catalina Trail, attracting hikers, campers, and, of course, the bison.
    — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Maybe scaly like fishskin, or springy like grassland, or cool and sodden like clay.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The largest of the blazes, the Flying V Fire, continued to grow, burning in pinyon-juniper and grassland.
    — The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
  • San Carlos's lands range from alpine meadows and grassland to desert.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Back then, the area was a cold, dry grassland that extended across the Bering land bridge into Siberia, and all the way to western Europe.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The North Slope used to be a grassland populated by mammoths.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Framed by the Caliente and Temblor mountain ranges, the vast plain sits 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles and is the largest native grassland left in the state.
    — Alice Li, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • New species like zebra were emerging from under the trees and appearing in the grasslands.
    — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • The striped reptiles live along dry creek beds in the shrublands and grasslands of southeastern Colorado.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But on a grassland, the sparse vegetation might let more photons in.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The bird, which lives in grasslands across five states, including the Texas panhandle, once numbered in the millions.
    — Edward McKinley, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The yurt stood in the middle of a sweeping northern Chinese grassland, beneath a cloudless sky.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The fire has consumed more than 486 square miles of timber, grassland and brush, with evacuations in place for weeks.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
  • The nearly three-and-a-half-mile loop gently meanders along clifftops through shady cypress stands and breezy grasslands.
    — Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The prairie chicken's challenges are part of a troubling trend for grassland-reliant species overall.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • However, the state does have prairie dogs, which are grassland squirrels found in the Western U.S. and Mexico.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The pronghorn would have overlapped with many predators in its temperate and arid grassland habitat.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2023
  • More than two thirds of U.S. buildings destroyed in wildfires were in the West, and 79.5 percent of buildings burned in them were in shrublands and grasslands, the researchers found.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Church says knocking down trees would, in fact, help restore the earlier grassland ecosystem of the tundra.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The bee species also lives in the grasslands and pine savannas of Florida and the Southeast, according to the wildlife service.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024

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