prairies
Example Sentences
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Refinery issues in the Great Lakes and the prairies of Canada fed into significant price increases for those two areas, including the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
The Port of Churchill opened nearly a century ago and was primarily used to export grain from the prairies.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
The uprooting of prairies across the Great Plains and the Dust Bowl could not have occurred without the massive settler movement triggered by the Homestead Act of 1862.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2025
On the prairies of north central Montana, farmers must sometimes contend with a worrisome visitor: the grizzly bear.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2024
Down on the ground the prairies unscroll, vast and mundane and plausible as hallucinations, dusted already with snow and scrawled with sinuous rivers.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
