How to Use savanna in a Sentence

savanna

noun

• Past the many men on the side of the road selling hay savanna.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• Rain forests gave way to woodlands, and as the landscape opened up, the savanna emerged.
  — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
• But shadows of doubt hover over Dr. Rudolph like a canopy above the savanna.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
• When the Zoonomia team tallied the number of these genes in each species, the African savanna elephant took the top spot, with 4,199.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• The video shows guides tracking down an African savanna elephant for LaPierre, who then shoots and wounds it.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2021
• The city was built in a barren savanna, springing up from nothing in just a few years.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• Dust forms in the Sahara desert and on the edge of the more lush Sahel — a narrow transition zone between desert to the north and savanna to the south — in north Africa.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 26 June 2020
• The airport also has agreed to build a trail through the savanna, which the forest preserve had been planning.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2022
• The bird makes its home in grasslands and woodlands, as well as open savannas as long as there are nearby trees to roost in and build nests for its young.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
• That seems straightforward enough for a prey animal trying to live through the night in the savanna.
  — Jessica Wapner, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
• By that point, much of the biome would transform from a forest to a drier and more degraded savanna biome.
  — Carlos Nobre, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
• Park visitors now may see Ranger and his mother on the savanna.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• The bee species also lives in the grasslands and pine savannas of Florida and the Southeast, according to the wildlife service.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The wildebeest herds move north and west into the savanna, typically in May as the rainy season ends and the fertile plains dry out.
  — National Geographic, 30 Nov. 2021
• Four days had passed since the last pipeline bombing, and a lake of glistening crude stagnated in the savanna.
  — Jessica Camille Aguirre, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• The dark, dense, damp tropical rainforest will give way to a more open savanna.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• In Kenya, the diverse landscape of the savanna is like something out of a childhood storybook.
  — Stephanie Walden, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2023
• There are three species of elephants: the African bush elephant (also known as the African savanna elephant), the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• The researchers captured videos of African savanna elephants at Zoo Atlanta, stretching out their trunks to pick up pieces of food.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2022
• The Arctic is on track to be ice-free in summers in 20 years, researchers say, while the Amazon rain forest could turn into a savanna in 50 years.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• These snakes prefer to stay in bluff prairies, and adjacent savannas and open woodland.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
• Like cheetahs, leopards occupy an assortment of habitats in Africa and Asia, from the forests to the savannas, and pursue some of the same species.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
• Raceway Woods includes a savanna and a woodland area with a brook running through portions of its 122 acres.
  — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2021
• Many of the 1,200 rivers and streams that make up the Pantanal originate in the Cerrado, a tropical savanna to the east and south that’s also ravaged by fire.
  — Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 2 Oct. 2020
• There are scientists who study grasslands like the savanna in Africa, for instance.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2023
• The population of savanna elephants has fallen at least 60%, the team found.
  — Elizabeth Preston New York Times, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• The expedition, or dzomori, leaves Ripá for a day of collecting native seeds on the savanna of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• Imagine yourself in a Jurassic Park among the savanna grasses of the Cerrado, Brazil.
  — Melissa Findley, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
• The death of a lion in Kenya’s picturesque savannas rarely tugs at people’s hearts, even in a country where wildlife tourism is a key pillar of the nation’s economy.
  — Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Tigers can be found in a diverse range of habitats, from tropical rainforests to savannas, according to the WWF.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024