How to Use bottomland in a Sentence

bottomland

noun

• That left freed slaves to build their homes on bottomland.
  — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
• The park has the largest most old growth bottomland hardwood forest in the country.
  — Discover Staff, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2016
• The rich soil, bottomland, is blessed with yearlong sunshine and warmth.
  — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
• Sugar maples often grow in rich, moist bottomlands in the wild.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
• All Saints was built on about 16 acres of bottomland, perfect for farming.
  — Bob Smietana, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
• On the other side were lowlands filled with bottomland hardwoods.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2021
• Forests that grow on the floodplain are called floodplain forests, sometimes also called bottomland forests.
  — Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• Historic hideouts aside, the park is home to the largest remaining tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022
• Reports of 300-pounders are filtering out of the cypress-gum bottomlands.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 13 Jan. 2020
• The Hastain Trail begins near Doheny’s old spread along the bottomlands.
  — Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Jan. 2018
• Pueblo structures still stand under red cliffs, while modern-day Navajos farm the bottomlands.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2015
• The biggest challenge in the restoration has been replanting the bottomland forest.
  — Sheila Stroup, NOLA.com, 10 June 2017
• Charles Cocke, a descendant who lives in Charlottesville, said he was thrilled by the discovery and planned to plant it on bottomland next season.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
• In 1911, a competitor, George F. Law, was the first to plat the sluggish stream’s bottomland, selling speculation lots by mail.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
• Take out the Great Trinity Forest, one of the largest urban bottomland hardwood forests in America, and the city loses about a third of its shade and oxygen.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 24 May 2020
• Here, not far from Vicksburg, Mississippi, lies one of the largest expanses of bottomland forest left in this part of the country.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
• The benches and picnic tables are built to handle the flooding expected in this bottomland.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2021
• Congaree is a haven for four-legged friends who want to meander through the country's largest old growth bottomland hardwood forest.
  — Emily Pennington, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2021
• Long-term plans call for wetland restoration to return the land to a natural bottomland hardwood forest.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 28 Oct. 2022
• This 400-acre preserve features plants native to the Chesapeake region and includes five miles of trails through meadows, forest and bottomland.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• Long-term plans call for wetland restoration to return the land to its natural bottomland hardwood forest.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 8 July 2022
• His father, the town's namesake, had served a mission of a different sort — ordered by Brigham Young to sell his rich bottomland in Utah and use the proceeds to go forth and create a new settlement in the wilderness.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2012
• Behind the protection of levees, cities and towns grew and farms expanded into rich bottomlands adjacent to the river.
  — Tristan Baurick, nola.com, 15 June 2019
• In contrast to fast-growing pines, hardwoods that grow in bottomlands like these produce wood so slowly that a landowner might get only one harvest in a lifetime, Mr. Stanley said.
  — Gabriel Popkin Audra Melton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Oaks divide roughly into upland and bottomland species, the former suited to difficult dry sites and the latter to areas that get soggy.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
• To have vast acreage of both bottomland hardwoods and upland timberland that’s in production, is very appealing.
  — al, 18 Aug. 2022
• Encompassing over 1,300 acres in North Arlington, River Legacy covers bottomland forest and prairies and the wildlife that call them home.
  — Dallas News, 24 May 2021
• According to Babst, some bottomland forests have already suffered tree death because of years of constant flooding.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 July 2021
• The land, which includes 3.5 miles along Salmon Creek, is important ecologically, with flood plain forests of cypress-gum swamp and bottomland hardwood forest.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
• Thick with sycamores, oaks, and sweet pecans, bottomland forests like these can then support migratory birds, from the endangered Bachman’s warbler to the recovering bald eagle.
  — W. Hodding Carter, Outside Online, 29 June 2011

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024