How to Use shrubland in a Sentence

shrubland

noun

• At the time the creature lived, the area was largely dry shrubland with some trees.
  — Malcolm Ritter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• The striped reptiles live along dry creek beds in the shrublands and grasslands of southeastern Colorado.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• More than two thirds of U.S. buildings destroyed in wildfires were in the West, and 79.5 percent of buildings burned in them were in shrublands and grasslands, the researchers found.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Summit District at this national park includes the volcanic crater wilderness as well as the shrubland on the mountain’s slants.
  — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• Evidence suggests heavy winds downed power lines in the area, sending sparks into the dry shrubland.
  — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• How this shrubland bounces back from the fire will likely impact mountain lions’ survival.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• In the photoseries, the drum majorettes are a dynamic jolt of color in muted landscapes of concrete and shrubland.
  — CNN, 27 July 2021
• One study found that in grasslands, shrublands and cropland worldwide where forests were created, streams shrank by 52% and 13% of all streams dried up completely for at least a year.
  — Caroline Lehmann, Quartz Africa, 28 July 2019
• In contrast, 64 percent of such houses were destroyed by grassland or shrubland fires.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
• Smokey the Bear is famous for warning against forest fires—but for most U.S. homeowners, grass fires and shrubland fires are actually more of a threat.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
• In the fall, many California fires occur in coastal shrublands and are driven by extreme wind events, such as the Santa Ana and Diablo winds.
  — Jordan Evans, Cnn and Brandon Miller, CNN, 16 July 2019
• Keep in mind that disease-carrying ticks can inhabit coastal shrubland near beaches, not just dense forests, Lane said.
  — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2022
• In the dry shrubland around the shores of the ancient lake where MRD lived and died, nearly everything edible would also have been tough enough to make chewing serious work.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019
• There were several available routes to Holua, where our permit allowed us to camp, in a dry shrubland at about 6,900 feet elevation.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
• Soft boundaries linked prairie, savanna, shrubland, forest and marsh.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• The coast is split into a forested northern section, separate central and southern shrublands, and the forested Sierra Nevada rounding out the list.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 July 2019
• A lot of this remarkable biodiversity comes from Cape Town’s unique fynbos shrubland ecosystem, which requires fires to thrive.
  — Eric Margolis, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
• Only a few hundred remain, surviving in the low growing, Afro-alpine shrubland of the National Park which supports their largest population.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• People are increasingly building closer to the wilderness, blurring the line between suburbs and shrubland.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 2 Aug. 2018
• By some estimates, the state has gone from just 20 percent forested at its agricultural peak to 80 percent forested (or at least semi-developed woods and shrubland).
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• Instead, Greenville will be a hotter, drier, harsher place — one where the canopy of evergreens that once shaded its quaint downtown may never regrow, replaced instead by highly flammable shrubland.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• From the shrublands to the subalpine forests, fire—an integral part of any healthy landscape—is now acting as an adaptation catalyst that’s rapidly reshaping entire ecosystems.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 5 June 2019
• Since 1982, researchers at this arid, semi-arid site have studied dramatic changes in vegetation, as perennial grasslands give way to shrubland in a process known as desertification.
  — Discover Magazine, 2 June 2017
• According to the federal agency’s species status assessment, climate change could also affect vegetative patterns in the state, leading more of the rat’s grassland habitat to become shrublands.
  — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
• There are seven model ecosystems within Biosphere 2: rainforest, ocean, swamps surrounded by mangrove trees, savanna grassland, fog desert, desert grass-shrubland landscapes and model city.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2020
• These constrictor snakes are found in Southern California's deserts, shrublands, national parks, and northwest Mexico.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• While development has contributed to habitat destruction, the lack of shrubland also comes from fewer and fewer natural disturbances.
  — Elise Takahama, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024