How to Use upland in a Sentence

upland

noun
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  • The remainder of the land, called the uplands, is the city's and includes the school's buildings.
    — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 27 June 2017
  • As for snow, the biggest threat would be inland – and upland.
    — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Any one of these 10 guns would be a faithful companion in the uplands.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Pawpaws in the wild The pawpaw tree loves rich, moist soils in lowland woods, but the trees can move to the uplands if the area is heavily browsed by deer.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But climate change and the current landscape, with growing farms in the area, have meant the rabbit can no longer flee upland.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • The city, acting on longstanding plans, wants to improve the upland site once home to Jimbo’s shack — to the tune of $2.8 million.
    — Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 6 June 2017
  • In the uplands, lidar images revealed the long outlines of terraces and low field walls.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2018
  • This younger and more modern crowd is breaking the stigma of upland hunting.
    — Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Meanwhile, on the uplands of North Wales, Carneddau’s wild ponies are oblivious to the seismic changes afoot.
    — NBC News, 3 May 2020
  • The blockchain pointed the way to the sunlit uplands of a genuinely decentralized world.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • This season a number of moose moved into Donnelly Flats from the uplands around Black Rapids.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2020
  • Alders and maples shade the trail’s lake side and towering cedars shade the uplands, their cooling complemented by a light breeze off the water.
    — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Proceeding north, the land rises from coastal uplands to gentle foothills.
    — Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • Across the lake, the Nash Preserve features the state's only natural white pine bluff, where rare bunchberry grows in an upland fen.
    — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Given that Straska Farm is upland and prime, tillable farmland, Gilbert said local farmers are eager to make use of it.
    — Kathleen McWilliams, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • And yet a closer look reveals signs of flood—scoured river stones, logs rolled smooth, and clamshell fossils embedded in limestone from the uplands of the Temblor and Coast ranges.
    — Jeremy Miller, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The uplands surrounding wetlands often have good stands of grass, while cattails on the edges of the water provide cover all season long.
    — Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Hopefully, to the sunlit uplands where a thousand flowers bloom amid blue-sky thinking.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • And during the fall, these small, fragile birds make an incredible journey south, stopping along the way to briefly grace your favorite upland haunts.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The crews were targeting about a dozen trees in the uplands, including towering camphors.
    — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • There is an isolated upland area south of the wetland complex that would be accessed by two wooden boardwalks.
    — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2020
  • As an example, over centuries Native Hawaiians used a system of land division based on the flow of fresh water from the mountains to the ocean, and the sharing of resources from the uplands and the sea.
    — Suzanne Vares-Lum, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2023
  • For centuries Iceland’s sæluhús, or houses of joy, have offered rough refuge to travelers crossing the uplands.
    — Karin Altenberg, WSJ, 5 July 2019
  • That decade had been a golden age for white settlers drawn from the deprivations of postwar Britain to the sunlit uplands of a distant colonial outpost.
    — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Students hike along trails and view animals as well as local beach, mudflat and upland habitats.
    — Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Pima—an American cotton that's a great in-between for Egyptian and upland.
    — Hannah Jones, Country Living, 28 June 2022
  • The hood and shoulders are reinforced with durable, water-repelling fabric, which comes in handy for late-season upland or rabbit hunts.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The turtles’ need for a wetland area as well as nearby sandy upland for nesting can lead to a search for the ideal habitat, Snider said, and traveling carries risk as the turtles face roads and cars.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Though rare today, the plant was common enough 2,000 years ago that indigenous Americans collected it from the shores of rivers and brought it with them to the uplands for cultivation.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Numerous creeks and basins, like the Paerdegat, penetrate upland from the bay, putting surrounding areas at risk of flooding.
    — David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 31 May 2017

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