brushland

Example Sentences

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But if strong north winds continued to blow, The Times reported, the blaze would engulf remote mountain areas inaccessible to firefighters and fuel up on dense brushland.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025

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

And the birds which spent the day in the brushland came at night to the little pools that were like steps in the mountain cleft.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck