brushland

Example Sentences

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Verdant woods gave way to scrubby brushland and desert; most of the large mammals disappeared.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 2023

Davenport originally moved from Seattle to the wheat-growing area with the thought of living in the silo, accessed on gravel on Old Missile Site Road North, past wire gates and brushland.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022

The Del Rio sector, a gargantuan 47-county riverfront region of sparsely populated brushland, is the second-busiest on the entire Southwest Border.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021

The story is different in coastal wet forests or in brushland, which evolved with less frequent fires.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2021

Stalk land, fallow fields, and brushland, all appeared to be sewn together by wide fencerow stitches of trees.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong