How to Use Eurasian in a Sentence

Eurasian

adjective

• With a wingspan of up to 6 feet, the Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the world’s largest owls.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• At dawn, cooing doves and trilling Eurasian blackbirds woke me.
  — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• The pitch range was very similar to that of two kinds of raptors known to nest in the area, Eurasian kestrels and sparrow hawks.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Eurasian eagle owl, for instance, is one of the largest and most widely distributed owls in the world.
  — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Frankopan is at his most confident on the drier terrain of the Eurasian steppe, the setting of his last book.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• This is the second death of a Eurasian eagle owl at the zoo in less than three years, according to the Star Tribune.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
• The subject was Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, and his year on the loose in Manhattan.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• There are three types of lynxes other than the bobcat: the Canadian lynx, the Iberian lynx and the Eurasian lynx.
  — Abigail Beck, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
• Etna sits near where the African plate meets the Eurasian plate, but from there the situation grows complex, Behncke explains.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
• Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl flew from his enclosure in Central Park Zoo and into the hearts of millions around the world.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
• Some states allow year-round hunting for Eurasian collared doves with no bag limit.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• There are no female Eurasian eagle-owls in New York, and so for Flaco, no potential mates.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Where the earthquake occurred in Morocco, the African plate is slowly slamming into the Eurasian plate, but at a pace of only about 3.6mm a year.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• First, the United States is embroiled in a major Eurasian rimland war, one that must be fought and won to preserve American power.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• Here, the Eurasian and North American plates gradually draw away from one another, sending molten rock welling up from the deep to erupt at the surface.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• In the early decades of the 13th century, the great tectonic plates of Eurasian geopolitics shifted rapidly.
  — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• Morocco is positioned at the juncture of a slow-motion tectonic crash between the African and Eurasian plates.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• Then alewives, sea lampreys, Eurasian watermilfoil and others all were introduced into the lake and made their mark.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
• It was associated with the early nomadic people of the Eurasian steppe, such as the Yuezhi and the ruling dynasty of the Kushans—an empire known for the a love of architecture and art and the spread of Buddhism.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• Which genes stay and which genes go Roughly two percent of the present-day Eurasian genome is derived from Neanderthal genetic variants, but which two percent varies.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2023
• Still, two large nuclear powers that are on friendly terms standing back-to-back on the giant Eurasian landmass is a major headache for Washington.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
• Mountains were formed by the collision of three tectonic plates: Arabic, Eurasian, and Anatolian.
  — Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2024
• The collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates occurred at a relatively shallow depth, which makes a quake more dangerous.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Wolves, bears, and the endangered Eurasian lynx can be spotted roaming through Risnjak National Park.
  — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
• Similar to the screeches of the raptors that inhabited the region many millennia ago, the researchers say that the instruments imitated the sounds of the Eurasian kestrel and Eurasian sparrowhawk.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• Unlikely, given how much human and animal movement was happening along the Eurasian steppes at that time, Ventresca-Miller says.
  — science.org, 23 July 2024
• His winning image, capturing a Eurasian nuthatch flying overhead, was the stunning outcome.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• It’s created to withstand the heavy winds of the Eurasian steppe, a wide-open grassland that extends from Hungary to northeastern China, including across Mongolia.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl, loosed and now living comfortably in Central Park, is an urban survival story relatable to many.
  — Carl Safina, TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• The product of volcanic eruptions that occurred when the Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided, the jagged isles loomed dramatically on the horizon.
  — Sunil Badami, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024