American buffalo
Example Sentences
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The wildlife service has compared lake sturgeon losses to the mass destruction of the American buffalo.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Yet at the time, most people assumed that "species were static and enduring," Nijhuis writes, and those who did catch wind of the fall of the American buffalo mostly responded with a shrug.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2021
As the disk of the sun slowly emerges, I can make out small black silhouettes grazing in the distance: herds of American buffalo and Przewalski’s horses.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2015
A series of semiabstract paintings on paper by Gary Panter — the underground comic artist and designer for the TV show “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” — pertain to the extinction of the American buffalo.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2014
In days gone by the American buffalo, or bison, roamed nearly the entire length and breadth of North America.
From On the Trail of Pontiac by Stratemeyer, Edward
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
