How to Use sagebrush in a Sentence

sagebrush

noun
Definition of sagebrushnext
  • The plains of sagebrush, white clay, and thin grass open to the east.
    — John Kissane, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The deer explodes to its feet and sprints through the sagebrush.
    — Popular Science, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The ground and most the sagebrush that the pygmy rabbits rely on were charred black.
    — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 12 July 2017
  • Pass Grant Lake, a deep blue tarn nestled in the sagebrush.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Start the hike on the Flatiron Rock Trail, to the right of the trailhead, and follow the dusty path past juniper and sagebrush.
    — OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Set out from the parking area along a wide trail that cuts through sweet-smelling sagebrush.
    — Caitlin Moran, The Seattle Times, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The drive wound by Orem and Provo, then through a landscape so parched that even the sagebrush looked thirsty.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Small sagebrush trees by Mike Wood, modeltreestore.com.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Glenn draped a parachute over some sagebrush for some shade, Shesol writes, and then dug in.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • The vistas go from dusty sagebrush to a Bob Ross painting.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 13 May 2021
  • Driving to check a trap, Hicks trailed the spotlight beam over knots of sagebrush, a dozen deer, and three skunks.
    — Elizabeth Miller/undark, Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Our windows were open to the desert outside, the air all sagebrush and sunburnt dirt.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
  • One side is a forest of Joshua trees, the northernmost of the Mojave, and the other is a sea of sagebrush, the start of the Great Basin.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021
  • The property is a rolling mix of bluffs and coulees, sagebrush flats and grasslands.
    — Christine Peterson, Outside Online, 15 June 2022
  • Kevin McFee looked out across the grasslands on his ranch, where a pair of cows grazed in the distance among the sagebrush and juniper trees.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Drive across the Cascade Mountains, take the gravel roads and head to the dusty trailheads lined with sagebrush.
    — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2021
  • There are more than 350 plant and animals species in decline from the loss of sagebrush.
    — Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The next stop, called Blue Basin, contained two hiking trails through the sagebrush to overlooks.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Every last inch of a pygmy rabbit is built for sagebrush.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Sage grouse also feed on the sagebrush during the winter.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The footage shows a large, hairy biped walking across a hillside before squatting in the sagebrush.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Around them are meadows of mule’s ears and purple lupine, sagebrush fields, and thick forests that dip to a river, then surge up the peak.
    — Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • In inspired casting, Keanu Reeves — or at least his head — appears as the face of a wise sagebrush named … Sage.
    — Kimber Myers, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • While the Skeena flowed through the lush, rainy coastal mountains, the Fraser starts up high in dry country: There's sagebrush lining the banks for many miles.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2018
  • Junipers are being cut where sagebrush still covers most of the ground.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Outside Laramie, sagebrush and cattle make up much of the rest of Albany County.
    — Ali Watkins, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The footage shows the officer come up on five people and three vehicles on a dirt road in an open area of sagebrush.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Rufus went on ahead, wending through openings in the sagebrush.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • They’ve been stained a dusty red from running up the sand hills on the edge of this town, dodging sagebrush as part of his conditioning.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The land is currently used for farming wheat on the valley bottom, with grasslands and sagebrush on the slopes.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021

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