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
• 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
• 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
• Here is a tale of hardy pioneers, in a little house on a prairie far, far away.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 16 July 2021
• Higher in the sky now, the midmorning sun had replaced the moon over the North Dakota prairie.
  — Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024