grassland

Example Sentences

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If she can prove that cheetahs are worth saving, she thinks, she can help the cheetahs who are living in “the parched grassland she can only imagine. The place that would’ve been her home, too.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

For example, Olduvai Gorge Bed in Tanzania has been described as freshwater woodland and grassland, while the Upper Bed reflects drier woodlands and marshy areas.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026

The fear is that, if this continues, vast areas of rainforest could die away and become a savannah or dry grassland ecosystem.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

Shasta and the Sierra Nevada, rivers course down to the valley floor, to vast fields of rice, endless orchards of peaches and golden, rolling grassland full of more cows than people.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

Nhamo looked for a way into the grassland so she could peer more closely into the windows, which were open but covered by a fretwork of iron.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer