How to Use vegetation in a Sentence

vegetation

noun
  • Using a tractor and rakes, crews move it from the beach to the line of vegetation.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The key to getting bass to bite was reeling the crankbait along the top of submerged vegetation.
    Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • All the vegetation gone more than the entire state of Maryland in square footage.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The best time to see the village is summer -- when vegetation is in full bloom.
    Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The fish tend to live in slow-moving streams or ponds with thick vegetation.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
  • For hundreds of feet up and out, the vegetation had been destroyed.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The vegetation is bare, and there was snow on the river bank in addition to ice atop the water.
    Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Surface fires begin above the ground and burn dry vegetation such as leaves and grass.
    Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But on a grassland, the sparse vegetation might let more photons in.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The canyon creek began to flood yards and the surrounding hills, which were stripped of vegetation in the 2017 Thomas Fire, began to tumble down in the dark.
    Brian Melley, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The 38-year-old didn’t grow up with lawns in Poland, where native vegetation such as wheat and daisies were more common in yards.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The car caught fire, and the blaze spread to surrounding vegetation, said Chula Vista fire Capt.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Shacks are perched on cliffs with little vegetation to hold soil in place.
    Mark Stevenson and Julie Watson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • This time of year, trees are barren, the vegetation around pits blinds is trampled, and ducks have had it with anything that looks off.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2023
  • They were held in check by grazing bison that reduced the amount of flammable vegetation.
    Jane Braxton Little, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Across the road, the vegetation morphs from cactus-centric to a sea of creosote and brittlebush.
    Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Rest assured the dark water is due to tannins from the roots of shoreline vegetation, says Fogg.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Left unattended, the vegetation is ripe for a quick burn during a fire.
    USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • The house came with a roughly 4,500-square-foot yard devoid of vegetation save for a few banana and guava trees.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Some of that land could be converted from corn to native vegetation and trees, Hansen said.
    Erin Jordan, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024
  • For a while, the flames had a meek, almost dainty quality; the vegetation was too damp to burn very fiercely.
    New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Lack of vegetation can affect growth of deer during a drought.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • At 8,000 feet above sea level, Iten is marked with lush vegetation and striped with Kenya’s iconic red clay roads.
    Kristin Jenny, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Singh explained that when the ground and vegetation are moist, the risk of ignition decreases.
    Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The winds dry out grasses and brush in the Sierra Nevada and pose the greatest fire risk in the fall, when vegetation is usually at its driest.
    Elena Shao, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Nielsen-Gammon said the heat struck early in the season and before vegetation could green up and become less likely to burn.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Millions of acres of tinder-dry vegetation burned in 2020.
    Jill Cowan, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The crash burned about an acre of vegetation before the fire was contained more than an hour later, fire officials said.
    Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
  • Just beyond them where there’s open grassland, there should also be a fuel break – a buffer zone cleared of vegetation.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The agency reported that the 1990s floods led to the destruction of hundreds of Ash trees, wiped out riparian vegetation, and caused significant erosion to the waterfalls.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2024

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