How to Use prairie in a Sentence

prairie

noun
  • The train tracks extend over miles of prairie.
  • Millions of buffalo once roamed the prairies.
  • From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
  • The birds prefer to nest on the ground in open fields and prairies.
    oregonlive.com, 11 June 2019
  • The prairie for us is the essence of what made us Osage.
    NBC News, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The settlers who came here saw, in the harsh prairie, a chance to make a life in the wilderness.
    Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Hope was part of a blackland prairie known as the Prairie De Roan.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2021
  • And this was about a teacher on the prairie in North Dakota!
    Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The prairie grasses at the park are home to coyotes, deer, and, of course, prairie dogs.
    Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The real problem in Fargo isn’t the snow that falls here but the snow that blows in off the prairie.
    Joe Barrett, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Today, most of the old windmills have been torn down or left to rust out on the prairie.
    Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The first green shoots of pasqueflowers will push up in prairies.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
    Ann Dowd, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2018
  • Chasing down pronghorn on the open prairie is about a lot more than just winning the race.
    Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2020
  • But the native prairie comes alive with even a trickle.
    Tammy Webber, Chron, 9 Sep. 2021
  • From the small porch of the couple’s slice of land, a herd of elk could be seen resting in the distant prairie.
    NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • In the golden days of summer, a prairie is in its glory.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But out on the plains and prairies, where the wind is aways blowing, 20-mph may barely count as a breeze.
    Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Then it was done: prairies plowed, cities erected, mines dug.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • The animals make their homes in the sandy prairies, where the turtles like to burrow.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
  • There’s not much between those cities except the dusty prairies and grasslands of the Great Plains.
    Mary Ann Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
  • The gun’s guts spilled out onto the Canadian prairie when the first flock hit the decoys.
    Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2020
  • In the north, the mountains, and the prairies, fall is quick, sometimes lasting only three weeks.
    Jonny Bierman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Across town, at the Red, White and Blue Ash event, the fireworks sparked brush fires in the surrounding prairie lands.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 July 2022
  • Two brass howitzers had been carried off a ship to a prairie near Fort Nisqually.
    Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
  • The series is set in Brookfield, a town on the western prairie of Canada.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Here’s a fun fact: The city was named for the tart mustang grapes that settlers found growing wild across the Grapevine prairie.
    Teresa Gubbins, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • They can be raised anywhere: from the Arctic to the equator, on prairies, in deserts and on mountains.
    Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Sip cocktails in this penthouse bar while admiring downtown Fort Worth and the wide prairie of where the west begins.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
  • An unmistakable tapestry of vast expanses from prairie grasslands with wild horses, to otherworldly pockets of arid desert and red rock; and of course, epic sunsets.
    Kate Donnelly, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

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