scrubland

Example Sentences

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"As far as we understand, they planned to demand a ransom for him but on finding they'd killed him, they just abandoned him in nearby scrubland."

From BBC

In this month's exercises, soldiers patrolled barren scrubland dotted with thin bushes.

From Reuters

Native to coastal scrublands, dunes and riverbanks near California's Pacific ocean, the pocket mouse's range once stretched from Los Angeles to the US-Mexico border.

From BBC

The drought has laid waste to the Somali countryside, leaving crops shrivelled and the scrublands dotted with the corpses of emaciated livestock.

From Reuters

The men trooped to a bus stationed in a nearby piece of scrubland that doubled as a parking facility.

From Seattle Times