prairie

Example Sentences

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Once out of the prairie in western Minnesota, the scenery got more conventional, with more towns, as well as larger cities.

From Los Angeles Times

He said Thor is located on prairie farmland in central Saskatchewan, close to the geographic center of North America and nearby access to freight-rail lines operated by Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

We climbed aboard the clattering omnibus just as it pulled up, and it carried us all the way to the southern edge of the city, where the prairie grasses grew tall and abundant.

From Literature

Curling was born in Scotland in the early 16th century but grew up centuries later on the Canadian prairies, where the severe weather, rural landscape and boredom provided fertile ground.

From Los Angeles Times