prairie

Example Sentences

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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

The roof needed to be replaced to withstand heavy snow, hard rain and the golf-ball-sized hail of prairie thunderstorms.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

Among the factors in that slide was a drought that struck the cattle-raising prairie states starting in 2020 and lasting through 2022.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

During strong westerly winds, especially in years with a wet spring and hot, dry fall, swarms of thousands—sometimes hundreds of thousands—roll freely over the prairie landscape, halting only where housing developments stand in their way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Last year my teacher read us this book where a girl went blind on a prairie.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins