prairie

Example Sentences

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But when you spend 12 hours seeing nothing but prairie with not a person, car or structure in sight, you realize what an amazing country we all live in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

One of Canada's main objectives during this trip is to ease Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola that have hurt farmers in the country's prairie provinces.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026

Nothing could have provided a more suitable host than an area of prairie where native grasses had been scythed away and the ground torn up by metal ploughshares and the hooves of a farmer’s horses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

In the middle of everything is start-up OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, which lit the prairie fire in 2022.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

I wanted so badly to describe the prairie smell to him, the sweet promise of spring after a Chinook, the warm, edgy rub of sage, the rib-eye steak smell of my fields.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson