How to Use prairie in a Sentence

prairie

noun
Definition of prairienext
Synonyms for prairienext
  • From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
  • Hope was part of a blackland prairie known as the Prairie De Roan.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2021
  • And this was about a teacher on the prairie in North Dakota!
    — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The prairie grasses at the park are home to coyotes, deer, and, of course, prairie dogs.
    — Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Today, most of the old windmills have been torn down or left to rust out on the prairie.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The first green shoots of pasqueflowers will push up in prairies.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2023
  • But the native prairie comes alive with even a trickle.
    — Tammy Webber, Chron, 9 Sep. 2021
  • In the golden days of summer, a prairie is in its glory.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But out on the plains and prairies, where the wind is aways blowing, 20-mph may barely count as a breeze.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Then it was done: prairies plowed, cities erected, mines dug.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • In the north, the mountains, and the prairies, fall is quick, sometimes lasting only three weeks.
    — Jonny Bierman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Across town, at the Red, White and Blue Ash event, the fireworks sparked brush fires in the surrounding prairie lands.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 July 2022
  • The series is set in Brookfield, a town on the western prairie of Canada.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Here’s a fun fact: The city was named for the tart mustang grapes that settlers found growing wild across the Grapevine prairie.
    — Teresa Gubbins, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Here is a tale of hardy pioneers, in a little house on a prairie far, far away.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 16 July 2021
  • Grass is the foundation of the prairie with eighty percent of the prairie land made up of different species of grass.
    — Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Starting in the late 1800s, settlers of the Great Basin poisoned prairie dogs to leave more grass for their cattle.
    — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Even though our small Kansas town was in the middle of a prairie, the park, just a block off Main Street, sank into the ground like a bowl.
    — Steve Gardiner, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Also, like other prairie grouse, sage grouse have dark breast meat and light leg meat.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Before sunrise the moonless stars sizzle and hum high above the prairie.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • The short-eared owl can be found in prairies and wetlands, unlike most other owls that live in forests, Williams said.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Patrick Marleau’s hometown is a speck on the map of Saskatchewan, one of Canada’s prairie provinces.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Now these ancient trees — trees that once offered shade to dinosaurs — lie tumbled amid the gnawed hills and rolling prairie of the park.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The coastal prairie, sloshy and verdant, was pocked with sinkholes full of wildflowers.
    — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The New Mexico prairie swallows the words without an echo.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • There had to be another theme, expansive and bold, something that would match the scale of the landscape itself, the prairies and the hills.
    — Martin Scorsese, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Its lines are low, sweeping prairie-style, plus the curves and zig-zag corners of art deco accents.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Bell Bowl prairie is owned by the airport and sits on its nearly 3,000-acre property.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Gravid females and juveniles stay in open-canopy bluff prairies.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
  • The park has also acquired 14 acres next to the building site, which will include a half-mile loop trail through a native prairie.
    — Ruth Cronin, The Enquirer, 7 June 2024

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