How to Use Eurasian in a Sentence

Eurasian

adjective

• With a wingspan of up to 6 feet, the Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the world’s largest owls.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• At dawn, cooing doves and trilling Eurasian blackbirds woke me.
  — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• The pitch range was very similar to that of two kinds of raptors known to nest in the area, Eurasian kestrels and sparrow hawks.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The Eurasian eagle owl, for instance, is one of the largest and most widely distributed owls in the world.
  — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Frankopan is at his most confident on the drier terrain of the Eurasian steppe, the setting of his last book.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• The subject was Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, and his year on the loose in Manhattan.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• There are three types of lynxes other than the bobcat: the Canadian lynx, the Iberian lynx and the Eurasian lynx.
  — Abigail Beck, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
• Etna sits near where the African plate meets the Eurasian plate, but from there the situation grows complex, Behncke explains.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
• Some states allow year-round hunting for Eurasian collared doves with no bag limit.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• There are no female Eurasian eagle-owls in New York, and so for Flaco, no potential mates.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Where the earthquake occurred in Morocco, the African plate is slowly slamming into the Eurasian plate, but at a pace of only about 3.6mm a year.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• First, the United States is embroiled in a major Eurasian rimland war, one that must be fought and won to preserve American power.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• Here, the Eurasian and North American plates gradually draw away from one another, sending molten rock welling up from the deep to erupt at the surface.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• In the early decades of the 13th century, the great tectonic plates of Eurasian geopolitics shifted rapidly.
  — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• Morocco is positioned at the juncture of a slow-motion tectonic crash between the African and Eurasian plates.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• Then alewives, sea lampreys, Eurasian watermilfoil and others all were introduced into the lake and made their mark.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
• It was associated with the early nomadic people of the Eurasian steppe, such as the Yuezhi and the ruling dynasty of the Kushans—an empire known for the a love of architecture and art and the spread of Buddhism.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• Which genes stay and which genes go Roughly two percent of the present-day Eurasian genome is derived from Neanderthal genetic variants, but which two percent varies.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2023
• Still, two large nuclear powers that are on friendly terms standing back-to-back on the giant Eurasian landmass is a major headache for Washington.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
• The collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates occurred at a relatively shallow depth, which makes a quake more dangerous.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Wolves, bears, and the endangered Eurasian lynx can be spotted roaming through Risnjak National Park.
  — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
• Similar to the screeches of the raptors that inhabited the region many millennia ago, the researchers say that the instruments imitated the sounds of the Eurasian kestrel and Eurasian sparrowhawk.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• His winning image, capturing a Eurasian nuthatch flying overhead, was the stunning outcome.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• It’s created to withstand the heavy winds of the Eurasian steppe, a wide-open grassland that extends from Hungary to northeastern China, including across Mongolia.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl, loosed and now living comfortably in Central Park, is an urban survival story relatable to many.
  — Carl Safina, TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• The product of volcanic eruptions that occurred when the Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided, the jagged isles loomed dramatically on the horizon.
  — Sunil Badami, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023
• Accelerating the exchange of people and ideas, the results help elucidate how the Yamnaya spread so far so quickly, altering Eurasian genes and cultures in their wake.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2023
• Over the two years that followed, Mr. Hiemstra and his colleagues discovered several other nests, built by Eurasian magpies and carrion crows, that contained anti-bird spikes.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• Perhaps Americans could ride out the resulting storm from the safety of the Western Hemisphere, but the history of both world wars suggests they would eventually be sucked into the Eurasian vortex.
  — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Iceland is one of the most geologically active places on earth due to its position between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates on the mid-Atlantic ridge.
  — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024