How to Use savanna in a Sentence

savanna

noun
Definition of savannanext
Synonyms for savannanext
  • Past the many men on the side of the road selling hay savanna.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Rain forests gave way to woodlands, and as the landscape opened up, the savanna emerged.
    — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • But shadows of doubt hover over Dr. Rudolph like a canopy above the savanna.
    — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
  • When the Zoonomia team tallied the number of these genes in each species, the African savanna elephant took the top spot, with 4,199.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The video shows guides tracking down an African savanna elephant for LaPierre, who then shoots and wounds it.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The city was built in a barren savanna, springing up from nothing in just a few years.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Dust forms in the Sahara desert and on the edge of the more lush Sahel — a narrow transition zone between desert to the north and savanna to the south — in north Africa.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 26 June 2020
  • The airport also has agreed to build a trail through the savanna, which the forest preserve had been planning.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The bird makes its home in grasslands and woodlands, as well as open savannas as long as there are nearby trees to roost in and build nests for its young.
    — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
  • At times, the drama falls flatter than an African savanna.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
  • That seems straightforward enough for a prey animal trying to live through the night in the savanna.
    — Jessica Wapner, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
  • But tens to hundreds of thousands of black rhinos roamed the plains and savannas of Africa prior to 1960, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
  • By that point, much of the biome would transform from a forest to a drier and more degraded savanna biome.
    — Carlos Nobre, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Park visitors now may see Ranger and his mother on the savanna.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The Cerrado is a high savanna, with dry forests and shrub lands, and occupies a quarter of Brazil’s land area.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • These creatures roam the open savanna together in search of prey.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • Melanistic leopards living in the open savannas of Africa, where the cats hunt both night and day, are extremely rare.
    — National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Halfway around the world in central Africa, vast stretches of savanna are going up in flame.
    — Kendra Pierre-Louis, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The bee species also lives in the grasslands and pine savannas of Florida and the Southeast, according to the wildlife service.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The wildebeest herds move north and west into the savanna, typically in May as the rainy season ends and the fertile plains dry out.
    — National Geographic, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In 10 locations, the team restored 2.5-acre blocks of cleared savanna.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The plants have been found in Indiana's forested wetlands, fens, savannas and forests as well as long roadsides and in old crop fields.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Four days had passed since the last pipeline bombing, and a lake of glistening crude stagnated in the savanna.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • The dark, dense, damp tropical rainforest will give way to a more open savanna.
    — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
  • In Kenya, the diverse landscape of the savanna is like something out of a childhood storybook.
    — Stephanie Walden, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2023
  • There are three species of elephants: the African bush elephant (also known as the African savanna elephant), the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The researchers captured videos of African savanna elephants at Zoo Atlanta, stretching out their trunks to pick up pieces of food.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2022
  • The Arctic is on track to be ice-free in summers in 20 years, researchers say, while the Amazon rain forest could turn into a savanna in 50 years.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • These snakes prefer to stay in bluff prairies, and adjacent savannas and open woodland.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
  • No wind, clear blue-and-purple skies, the sun slowly rising above the red dust blanketing the savanna far below.
    — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024

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