How to Use grassland in a Sentence

grassland

noun
  • Soaring views of the grasslands can be seen from the home.
    Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
  • The grassland steppes stretch away to the horizon in the far south of Kazakhstan.
    National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The air taxi drops us off in a sprawling tidal grassland to the south of Chenik.
    Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • This is the dry side of the island with sere grasslands and free-range goats.
    Ken Van Vechten, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The fires went from the flammable grasslands onto the houses and buildings.
    Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Wildlife abound in these rugged forests and grasslands south of the Texas border.
    San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Fine-scale maps of the world’s forests, grasslands, wetlands and crops.
    Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • Main course: Enjoy a three-hour trail ride through grasslands and along the rolling hills.
    Scott Craven, azcentral, 8 Nov. 2019
  • As much as 10% of global forests and grasslands may have burned at this time.
    Christopher R. Moore, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Or to the nature of the peninsula, with its sand dunes, coastal forests, and grasslands.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Since then, the lake area has become a mix of grassland, wetlands, ponds and woods.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The tribe tore down the building and removed the parking lot in favor of a grassland.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
  • These bears live in a variety of dry and moist forests and in some tall grasslands.
    Fox News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Where there was once wide, open grassland now sits a forest of trees.
    Michaela Chesin, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2020
  • 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
  • There is still plenty of grassland here, or veld, as South Africans call it.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Birds thrive in grasslands, deserts, mountains, forests, tundra and along the oceans’ coasts.
    Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Far off in the west, the grasslands tipped into empty reaches of sky.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • His voice rose over the din of hundreds of sea gulls rising from the grassland across the river from our duck blind.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Dozens of strike crews with Cal Fire, the state’s fire agency, waited in high-risk forests and grasslands in case a fire sparked.
    Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The study village, whose name was not revealed, is a mix of pine forest and grasslands.
    Bhanu Sridharan, Quartz India, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Here’s how to take a solo safari in South Africa’s wild grasslands.
    National Geographic, 31 Dec. 2019
  • But the West Highland Way is also steeped in natural beauty, from its scattered and steep Munros to its torrid rivers and boggy grasslands.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
  • At home in central and southern Argentina, Patagonian mara prefer to live in grasslands and brush lands with lots of open space.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024

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