How to Use vegetation in a Sentence
vegetation
noun-
Using a tractor and rakes, crews move it from the beach to the line of vegetation.
— Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023 -
The key to getting bass to bite was reeling the crankbait along the top of submerged vegetation.
— Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 -
All the vegetation gone more than the entire state of Maryland in square footage.
— Louis Casiano, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2024 -
The best time to see the village is summer -- when vegetation is in full bloom.
— Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022 -
The fish tend to live in slow-moving streams or ponds with thick vegetation.
— Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024 -
The droughts will lead to wildfires, killing more vegetation and crops.
— Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022 -
For hundreds of feet up and out, the vegetation had been destroyed.
— David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023 -
The vegetation is bare, and there was snow on the river bank in addition to ice atop the water.
— Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Surface fires begin above the ground and burn dry vegetation such as leaves and grass.
— Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023 -
But on a grassland, the sparse vegetation might let more photons in.
— Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023 -
The flames last month were fast and intense, wind-whipped and fueled by drought-dry vegetation.
— Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022 -
The canyon creek began to flood yards and the surrounding hills, which were stripped of vegetation in the 2017 Thomas Fire, began to tumble down in the dark.
— Brian Melley, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023 -
The 38-year-old didn’t grow up with lawns in Poland, where native vegetation such as wheat and daisies were more common in yards.
— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 -
The car caught fire, and the blaze spread to surrounding vegetation, said Chula Vista fire Capt.
— David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022 -
Shacks are perched on cliffs with little vegetation to hold soil in place.
— Mark Stevenson and Julie Watson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023 -
This time of year, trees are barren, the vegetation around pits blinds is trampled, and ducks have had it with anything that looks off.
— T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2023 -
When scything, begin by holding the trimmer at about the top third of the vegetation.
— Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2022 -
They were held in check by grazing bison that reduced the amount of flammable vegetation.
— Jane Braxton Little, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2023 -
Across the road, the vegetation morphs from cactus-centric to a sea of creosote and brittlebush.
— Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024 -
Rest assured the dark water is due to tannins from the roots of shoreline vegetation, says Fogg.
— Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024 -
Left unattended, the vegetation is ripe for a quick burn during a fire.
— USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023 -
The house came with a roughly 4,500-square-foot yard devoid of vegetation save for a few banana and guava trees.
— Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2024 -
The vegetation on the summit of the Tepui is incredibly thick.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2022 -
Some of that land could be converted from corn to native vegetation and trees, Hansen said.
— Erin Jordan, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024 -
For a while, the flames had a meek, almost dainty quality; the vegetation was too damp to burn very fiercely.
— New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022 -
Lack of vegetation can affect growth of deer during a drought.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022 -
At 8,000 feet above sea level, Iten is marked with lush vegetation and striped with Kenya’s iconic red clay roads.
— Kristin Jenny, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2023 -
Bears like to feed on various vegetation along the wide gravel plain of the Susitna and Nenana rivers.
— John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2022 -
Others are worried about the possibility for invasive vegetation to take hold given the highway of open land where old forest once stood.
— Joanne Frederick, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024 -
There are millions of homes situated in the wildland-urban interface, areas where houses and flammable vegetation are in close proximity.
— M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
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