How to Use prairie in a Sentence

prairie

noun

• The train tracks extend over miles of prairie.
• Millions of buffalo once roamed the prairies.
• The prairie is sort of the Whole Foods store for cranes.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2018
• From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
• The birds prefer to nest on the ground in open fields and prairies.
  — oregonlive.com, 11 June 2019
• Rules are like fence posts in the prairie—easy to get around.
  — Thomas M. Boyd, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
• The prairie for us is the essence of what made us Osage.
  — NBC News, 30 Nov. 2019
• The settlers who came here saw, in the harsh prairie, a chance to make a life in the wilderness.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2020
• Hope was part of a blackland prairie known as the Prairie De Roan.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2021
• And this was about a teacher on the prairie in North Dakota!
  — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
• The prairie grasses at the park are home to coyotes, deer, and, of course, prairie dogs.
  — Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
• The real problem in Fargo isn’t the snow that falls here but the snow that blows in off the prairie.
  — Joe Barrett, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• Today, most of the old windmills have been torn down or left to rust out on the prairie.
  — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
• The first green shoots of pasqueflowers will push up in prairies.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
  — Ann Dowd, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2018
• Chasing down pronghorn on the open prairie is about a lot more than just winning the race.
  — Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2020
• But the native prairie comes alive with even a trickle.
  — Tammy Webber, Chron, 9 Sep. 2021
• From the small porch of the couple’s slice of land, a herd of elk could be seen resting in the distant prairie.
  — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
• In the golden days of summer, a prairie is in its glory.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• But out on the plains and prairies, where the wind is aways blowing, 20-mph may barely count as a breeze.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2023
• Then it was done: prairies plowed, cities erected, mines dug.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
• Listen for the prairie’s buzzy song and the chat’s odd mix of random noise that passes for a song.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
• In 1912, a grad student found an unusual species in a wet prairie in the area.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
• The animals make their homes in the sandy prairies, where the turtles like to burrow.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
• There’s not much between those cities except the dusty prairies and grasslands of the Great Plains.
  — Mary Ann Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
• The gun’s guts spilled out onto the Canadian prairie when the first flock hit the decoys.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2020
• In the north, the mountains, and the prairies, fall is quick, sometimes lasting only three weeks.
  — Jonny Bierman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2023
• Across town, at the Red, White and Blue Ash event, the fireworks sparked brush fires in the surrounding prairie lands.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 July 2022
• Its vast prairies, badlands, and river valleys are home to bison, wild horses, and prairie dogs.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• Temporary route closure due to nesting falcons is typical each spring in order to protect nesting prairie and peregrine falcons.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024