How to Use tundra in a Sentence

tundra

noun

• In the winter, the scene turns to tundra and the lake freezes over.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 May 2024
• The plain is marked by hills, rivers and small lakes and tundra.
  — Bybecky Bohrer, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2023
• The plain is marked by hills, rivers, and small lakes and tundra.
  — Becky Bohrer and Matthew Daly, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2023
• The houses in Chevak spring from an open sweep of tundra and lakes.
  — Lois Parshley, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
• On the southern edge of town, where the road meets the open tundra, there is a cemetery.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• The question is how will that knee react on the second night of the back to back in the tundra?
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• The white tundra sparkled, reflecting the purples and blues of the sky.
  — Rachel Louise Snyder, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
• On the horizon, islands trapped in ice rose out of the snowy tundra.
  — Zoe Baillargeon, Outside Online, 29 July 2020
• Instead, Bleu sings and twirls in the middle of a tundra, adorned in a scaled hood.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
• Banas has mapped out a 240-mile route through the frozen tundra.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2022
• And even though the tundra may be quite cold, there are heaters in the vehicle.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• The loon breeds in the Arctic tundra during the summer.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• Some things Allen has learned over the years to play in a frozen tundra: – A limited warmup time in the cold.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2022
• All along the tundra portion of the trail, look for mule deer below in the meadows along the edges of the forest.
  — Estes Park Trail-Gazette, The Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2024
• The world should be cold and dead like the tundra, after all, a barren rock hurtling through space.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
• Scenic pullouts line the road, which tops out amid windswept alpine tundra.
  — Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2022
• Some 6,000 years ago, humans strapped wood to their feet to glide across the icy tundra in the very first act of skiing.
  — Brandon Perlman, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2022
• Snowy owls nest on the Arctic tundra, often on a slight rise where wind keeps the ground free of snow.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
• To the north, moose, caribou, and black bears pick their way through spruce-fir forest and mossy tundra.
  — Outside Online, 25 July 2022
• Despite their size, these creatures are a force on the tundra.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
• For the most part, only moss, lichen and shallow-rooted shrubs can grow in the tundra.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
• And yet, the tundra seems to be slowly reclaiming most of it.
  — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
• The grizzly ambled along, pausing to scrape the tundra for roots.
  — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
• The footpath winds past piles of junked cars, and over marshy tundra with the texture of a wet sponge, toward a mud pit.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• The concrete forest gives way to frozen tundra, gives way to rivers and islands and even more city.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 27 Feb. 2020
• Musk oxen are creatures of the tundra — of which there is quite a bit on the North Slope, just 60 miles away on the other side of the Brooks Range.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2022
• With that being said, there's still plenty of time to enjoy the frozen tundra.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• During summer, their gray and brown fur blends in with tundra rocks and plant life.
  — Jacob Job, The Conversation, 22 Feb. 2021
• With their large feet, wolverines can pad their way across the snowy tundra as if on snowshoes.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
• Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay.
  — Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024