How to Use cheatgrass in a Sentence

cheatgrass

noun

• The warmed plots, by contrast, are red squares of flat, cracked dirt with a few dead sprigs of invasive cheatgrass.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• Nico looks dubiously at the expanse of cheatgrass ahead of us.
  — Emma Marris, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2018
• And then there are the wildfires, fueled by the invasive cheatgrass that takes hold in sagebrush’s absence.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Faith uses cheatgrass, which serves as fuel for most of Utah’s valley and foothill fires, as an example.
  — Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Dec. 2021
• Along with a startling growth of invasive cheatgrass that dries out and provides fuel to light up the trees, forest fires are hitting Rocky hard.
  — Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
• Success has been elusive for federal agencies trying to halt the advance of cheatgrass.
  — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Experts say the wildfires have mainly been driven by cheatgrass, an invasive species that relies on fire to spread to new areas while killing the native plants, including sagebrush.
  — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Experts say the blazes have mainly been driven by cheatgrass, an invasive species that relies on fire to spread to new areas while killing native plants, including sagebrush on which sage grouse depend.
  — oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2020
• Nonnative invasive species like cheatgrass quickly spread across hillsides no longer blanketed for months in snow.
  — Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2022
• Invasive cheatgrass is displacing sagebrush and other native vegetation in the Great Basin faster than people are chopping down trees in the Amazon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• Some common but non-native plants — including eucalyptus trees, cheatgrass and pernicious shrubs such as French and Scotch broom — burn more readily than native species.
  — Matthew Brown and Christina Larson, SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2019
• Cavallaro said early aerial seeding helped keep cheatgrass from spreading.
  — Tom Holm, idahostatesman, 5 June 2017
• Sage grouse habitats are being infiltrated by cheatgrass, an invasive species that grows thick—unlike native sagebrush, which grows spotty—which can fuel massive wildfires that destroy their homes.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 June 2018
• In Yellowstone, non-native cheatgrass and desert madwort suck moisture out of the ground in early spring, depleting groundwater needed to sustain vegetation throughout the summer that grazing animals feast on.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 24 July 2022
• Straying may break up biologically active soil, creating room for cheatgrass to invade.
  — Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024