How to Use chaparral in a Sentence

chaparral

noun

• Chaparrals coach Kevin Tyrrell played him in 46 of 55 games.
  — Tony Baranek, Daily Southtown, 25 May 2017
• Griffin's front door opens to a view of a pool that shines over a canyon of chaparral and scrub.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• The fire burned in dense chaparral through an area of ranches, canyons and parks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• The blaze is burning in thick chaparral that has not seen a fire in more than 40 years.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2017
• The fire is burning through dense, heavy chaparral and came within yards of some homes in the foothills.
  — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• Wildfires in December charred much of the hills in the area, burning the chaparral all along the foothills.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
• And many of the blazes have roared through coastal chaparral and grasslands, not forest.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
• The blaze began in thick chaparral near the east end of San Diego Country Estates.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• Waist-high chamise chaparral closed in on my legs and backpack, but never blocked the striking vistas to the south.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• The duo climbed a chain link fence and squeezed into the thorny chaparral that Wright and his oldest son, Daniel, once had hacked at with a machete to no avail.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• The ceremony was held at the first tee of the course, tucked among the red rock and chaparral in the hills overlooking the Coachella Valley.
  — Ethan Varian, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2019
• Forest there had been burned in 1981 and was replaced with chaparral.
  — Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• And much of the region is covered in chaparral, the most flammable mix of brush land vegetation in the country.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2021
• Parks, campgrounds and hiking trails veer off into the chaparral, framed by rolling green hills in the background.
  — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• With extreme drought conditions and an excess of fuel in the form of chaparral and grasses, the area was more prone to burn.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2023
• In the 1970s Saucelito Canyon’s Bill Greenough restored the vines, which had been overgrown by dense chaparral.
  — Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 Apr. 2018
• Chamise, buckwheat and sage are referred to as chaparral.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2019
• However, many of the blazes have roared through coastal chaparral and grasslands, not forest.
  — Jonathan Lemire, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
• As the day heats up, resin is released from the stems and the wrinkled, grayish-green leaves, exuding an herbal scent that many a hiker thinks of as the perfume of the chaparral.
  — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• The fire was burning through dense, old-growth chaparral that hadn’t burned in more than 50 years, authorities said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• Flames were visible along the roadway as what was dubbed the Route fire grew at a moderate speed through chaparral.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2021
• Once at the top, an unmarked trail bears right to a red rock overlook, and then continues on through the chaparral for another half-mile or so for a view of the falls.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• The land includes mountainous terrain and rolling hills, grasslands, chaparral, oak and conifer forests along with creeks, springs and ponds.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
• The blaze began deep in a remote canyon blanketed with old-growth chaparral that hadn’t burned in more than 50 years, Stewart said.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• The 688-acre ranch where Reagan hosted world leaders sits atop the mountain range, above the flames feeding on dense chaparral and grasses.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
• Continuing on, the trail dipped into the forest of spruce and chaparral.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2017
• Winds gusting to nearly 20 mph (32 kph) at times drove the fire through dense chaparral on the foothill slopes and along ridgetops, sending up an enormous column of smoke that smeared the sky for miles around.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• Rose Hips Wild roses that grow throughout the Sierra Nevada chaparral are gorgeous to view when in bloom.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• In the open space between the living areas and animal pastures, there is a meadow planted solely in a mixture of native grasses and chaparral shrubs.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
• The Santa Ana winds, a Didion favorite, were more regular; their 100-miles-per-hour gusts whipsawed through the landscape, facing few obstacles in the largely treeless chaparral.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024