How to Use scrubland in a Sentence

scrubland

noun

• Head south on State Route 83 amid cactus and mesquite scrubland.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• Brigades searched mile after mile of barren scrubland for signs of him.
  — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2020
• Consider the case of Mohamed Abdi Madar, a camel herder who roams the scrubland west of Hargeisa.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2017
• Al-Hol was created decades ago, in a stretch of scrubland about ten miles west of the Iraqi border, as a haven for refugees.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Such marks the southerly edge of Dragonland, 260 acres of scrubland heath.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• The camp consists of hundreds of tents clustered together on a spit of sidewalk and a stretch of scrubland along the Rio Grande.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• This is an almost treeless, desert-like area of scrubland that stretches over a vast part of the continent.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2022
• The intern, Fauzia Bhutto, 26, turned up dead on remote scrubland.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
• Plains are open areas that are mostly treeless and studded with scrubland and shrub.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• The scrublands of Castro Valley and Fremont glowed bright orange.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
• Nearer the Mediterranean shore, the scrubland becomes rockier and the land flattens out.
  — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
• At a spring in the scrubland on the southern fringes of Harare, the water this week had slowed to a trickle, forcing residents to wait for about three hours to fill their buckets.
  — New York Times, 31 July 2019
• Off the motorways, dirt roads in the scrubland provide a web of smuggling routes ideal for traffickers.
  — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2020
• The chances of spotting the short-tailed, bushy-bearded feline in the Iberian scrublands, where lynx have roamed for millennia, were as good as finding a needle in a haystack.
  — Helena Amante, Smithsonian, 8 Oct. 2019
• On the eve of the launch attempt, cars, campers, RVs and even bicycles and horses jammed the only road leading to the launch pad, where the stainless steel rocket towered above the flat scrubland and prairie.
  — Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• The structures within town are located in chaparral scrubland that had not burned in at least 40 years.
  — Kalee Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2013
• That’s because Slab City has more than its share of people who think this patch of scrubland is impervious to disease.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2021
• Hundreds of them escaped across the scrubland into Colombia.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2021
• Despite the peacock’s over-the-top tail and infamous strutting display, the birds need help finding each other in India’s dense forests and scrubland.
  — Jennifer Abbasi, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2014
• There’s so little traffic that the surrounding scrubland is beginning to reclaim some of the parking lots.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
• From the scrubland opposite him, a group of wiry young fighters in tattered fatigues gathered, cradling Kalashnikovs.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
• The venomous but docile tarantula is native to Mexican deserts and scrublands, and is named after its red-orange leg joints.
  — Amy Rankin, National Geographic, 16 May 2018
• Shock collars can compel grazing cattle to create firebreaks in the scrublands of the American West.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Better known to Americans as ordinary pet parakeets, in Australia these birds travel the desert and scrubland in dense flocks.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2014
• Wildfires are getting bigger and more intense, and after a fire, the land may never return to forest, but convert to scrublands.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Outside Delta, a one-stoplight town in the scrublands of central Utah, a giant battery is taking shape underground.
  — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The road passes by the junction with the General Crook Trail before heading north through scrubland with hazy mountain vistas peeking out over the horizons.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• The bumpy country road wound deeper into the scrubland until at last an undulating shape appeared in the distance.
  — Sam Howe Verhovek, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
• Such projects can and often are placed on old landfill properties, but these are still more expensive than farmland or scrubland.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• This is the start of a protracted battle for the province of Idlib, a swathe of scrubland in north-western Syria which contains dozens of towns and villages like Ariha and Haas as well as the city for which it is named.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024