How to Use taiga in a Sentence
taiga
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In 1949, she, her mother and her invalid brother were stripped of their beloved farm and sent into the taiga.
—David Bezmozgis, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
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With its short flora, the taiga is kind to those intent on spotting movements of game.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
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Most of the taiga in Alaska is left unmolested, at least in the summer months.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
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Several women, with heavy coats, heads covered in hats and scarves, stand at the edge of a forest, or maybe the taiga.
—By Anne Tschida, miamiherald, 24 July 2017
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The north-taiga forests are essential for the reproduction of many bird species.
—Alex Treadway, National Geographic, 14 June 2017
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The north-taiga forests are essential for the reproduction of many bird species.
—National Geographic, 14 June 2017
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The taiga is a belt of coniferous forest around the planet at between 50 and 60 degrees north of the equator.
—Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
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The foal was discovered in the Batagaika crater, a huge 328-foot deep depression in the East Siberian taiga.
—James Rogers, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
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Russian president chose the Siberian taiga forest to go on a hike ahead of his birthday on Oct. 7.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
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Russia's boreal, or taiga, forests, the world's largest forested region, are a vital lifeline for the Earth.
—NBC News, 15 July 2021
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Vast sub-Arctic forests The boreal or taiga ecosystem, a swath of northern forest that covers 17% of the globe’s land area, is adapted to fire.
—Nancy Fresco, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2019
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To find out, researchers trudged through the Alaskan taiga, seeking out wildfire sites where spruce once dominated.
—Joel Goldberg, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
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Acting as the planet's lungs, the taiga — along with the Brazilian Amazon — soak up carbon dioxide and generate the air humans breathe.
—NBC News, 15 July 2021
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The long-legged, large-antlered member of the deer family is found in the tundra, taiga and boreal forest ecosystems from Alaska to Labrador.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
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Workers building the new Vostochny spaceport in the country's remote far-eastern taiga were given just two days to mark the coming of 2016.
—Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2016
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Embedded with us will be a true man of the Russian taiga, wearing camouflage and bearing a rifle and machete.
—Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
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The company’s pollution has carved a barren landscape of dead and dying trees out of the taiga, or boreal forest, one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
—NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
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The North American taiga covers more than 2.3 million square miles, an area larger than the Brazilian Amazon rain forest.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
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And in the remote, seemingly endless wilderness of the taiga, some people simply want visitors to relay a message to the outside world.
—Time, 26 Aug. 2021
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At the time the play was written, the Russian aristocracy was in twilight, the serfs had been emancipated, swaths of the taiga were being deforested.
—Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
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In the great taiga, Russia’s vast subarctic forest, and now in Ukraine, the stories of shatooni rising from apparent death to devour their executioners are not myth.
—A. Craig Copetas, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2022
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The park encompasses six million acres of subarctic taiga and tundra and is populated by an astounding range of wildlife.
—National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
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There’ll be rainforest, swamp, seasonal forest, forest, savanna, woods, taiga, desert, grassy desert and tundra.
—Duncan Geere, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2010
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The drying of soils and vegetation that followed contributed to wildfires that burned millions of acres of taiga, or boreal forest, particularly across Siberia.
—New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
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Lehtolainen escorts readers through the socially and economically frayed underbelly of Helsinki, to Baltic islands sparkling in long Nordic summer evenings, to dense snowy northern Finnish taiga.
—Beaverton City Library, OregonLive.com, 14 July 2017
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When a Russian family was discovered living in the Siberian taiga after 40 years without contact from the outside world, they were astounded by the advances of modern technology, from Sputnik to cellophane.
—Kelzim, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
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His past excursions, typically in the Siberian taiga, have showcased him engaged in a wide variety of activities, from shirtless horseback riding to shirtless fishing, shirtless hunting, and snorkeling (not shirtless).
—Johnny Simon, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2019
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