How to Use subarctic in a Sentence

subarctic

adjective

• These birds are a subarctic species that spend most of their life at sea.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• Now, hundreds of fires are burning through the subarctic taiga forests there for the second year in a row.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2021
• This is far-flung subarctic wilderness—no roads, no people, just a lot of bears and buckbrush.
  — Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
• Indeed the flora of Mount Washington is more conducive to the alpine regions of the subarctic.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• This town, which is in a subarctic climate zone, sparkles with Christmas magic year-round.
  — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
• Wildlife-lovers descend on the subarctic town of Churchill for a few weeks each autumn to tour the desolate landscape to look for polar bears.
  — Diane Bair and Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Resembling gulls to the untrained eye, northern fulmars are a subarctic species that spend most of their life at sea.
  — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
• Or, maybe those two were the same parent birds that fly to Costa Rica in the winter and return to this swampy subarctic valley each spring.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 July 2017
• The temperature of warmer permafrost in the low Arctic and subarctic has increased by less, in part because much of it is in the process of thawing.
  — Ben Weissenbach, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021
• Named after the moniker for subarctic conifer forests, the Taiga offers plenty of output and little range anxiety.
  — Bryan Campbell, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2022
• The vaccine is transported in glass vials strong enough to withstand transit and the subarctic temperatures in which the liquid must be stored.
  — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
• While the owl's spotting in the city was a rarity, snowy owls regularly flock to parts of New York to escape the Arctic and subarctic winter tundra.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2021
• The subarctic microorganisms revealed an array of colors from orange to yellow to pink to green.
  — Allison Gasparini, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Majestic subarctic mountains, white snow, black basalt, and teal oceans with breaching whales.
  — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2018
• Fish in the subarctic zone — such as Pacific cod — were deterred by the frigid temperatures of the cold pool, which hover just below 32 degrees.
  — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
• There have always been bad things happening, and across the subarctic, some of the darkest countries in the world have December practices that date back far before Jesus’s birth.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2021
• Utah is one of only nine states that allow hunting of tundra swans, which breed in the shallow lakes and wetlands of the subarctic and migrate south to their wintering grounds on the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 10 May 2023
• But maybe the definition should also include mention of wildfires—the kind that smolder and creep along underground in the boreal forests of the Far North and subarctic.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2021
• Because Updegrove has spent most of his life in subarctic Alaska, the polar conditions during his 56-mile run didn’t seem all that bad.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
• In the subarctic tundra of southwest Alaska, where the vegetation runs from moss to stunted willow, the Yupik have chants, songs, and stories about the importance of driftwood.
  — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• But the vaccine was packaged in 975-dose batches that must be kept at subarctic temperatures until used.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
• The idea is simple: Anchorage's subarctic climate means that drunk people who do not find shelter could freeze or succumb to a host of other hazards.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2016
• And that’s why this winter — one of the warmest on record for some parts of Canada — wasn’t exactly the best for a contest synonymous with subarctic temperatures.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• The arctic and subarctic regions, for instance, contain a rich fauna and flora and those are in imminent danger.
  — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
• The arctic and subarctic regions, for instance, contain a rich fauna and flora and those are in imminent danger.
  — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
• This famous recluse once took a five-month trip around the world as well as a subarctic train expedition, both times traveling with just her camera for company.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
• Get essential background on the geology of this subarctic island nation, and learn about the impact of climate change.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
• My parents, bewildered by Calgary’s subarctic winters and the labyrinthine task of finding jobs there, fought constantly.
  — Raksha Vasudevan, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• In cold, dry, subarctic air, a rocket taller than a house tilts northward, awaiting the moment when a person inside a nearby concrete building pushes a button.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
• The skies are most alive beneath the auroral oval, which roves over a band of arctic and subarctic terrain that ranges from Alaska across Canada and into Scandinavia and northern Russia.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024