as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the rabbit darted into the chaparral
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Recent Examples of chaparral
Residents of Marin, and the Bay Area at large, are understandably big fans of the diverse natural landscapes of the coast ranges: forests and woodlands, savannas and marshes, ocean coast and chaparral.
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Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
The combination of environmental regulations protecting chaparral, combined with the dense residential areas near it, mean that prescribed fire is very infrequently used in Southern California.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
But amid the chaparral, grasses, and trees, the preferred tools are shovels, axes, drip torches, and bulldozers.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 15 Jan. 2025
Southern California is dominated by shrublands known as chaparral.
—Hannah Singleton, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
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Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
The combination of environmental regulations protecting chaparral, combined with the dense residential areas near it, mean that prescribed fire is very infrequently used in Southern California.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
But amid the chaparral, grasses, and trees, the preferred tools are shovels, axes, drip torches, and bulldozers.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 15 Jan. 2025
Southern California is dominated by shrublands known as chaparral.
—Hannah Singleton, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for chaparral
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaparral
Noun
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Every year the club has a camping retreat at the grove under tight security.—
Paul Rogers,
The Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2025
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In addition to captivating views of the Magra Valley and Apennine Mountains, the property offers 14 distinct rooms, a swimming pool, a tennis court, and olive groves.—
Carissa & Dino Tozzi,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The whole sequence was shot in the forest with John Turturro on a day that just happened to be extremely foggy.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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Sai Yok rock geckos live on karst rock formations in a forest at an elevation of about 1,300 feet, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Stepping through the thicket is like being transported to another world — light shafts penetrate the canopy as the vegetation encloses you into beautiful woodland.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
3 Feb. 2025
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As Jacob prowls through the dense thickets of Queen Elizabeth National Park, his every step—or leap—serves as a reminder of nature’s tenacity and the urgent need to preserve it.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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After eight hours of hard fighting in a copse of trees near the hamlet of Kruglenkoe, the Ukrainians piled into armored trucks and sped back to the safety of the main Ukrainian line, half a mile to the east.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
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Orange County Fire Authority firefighters saved a woman and man from the San Juan Creek in San Juan Capistrano, California after receiving reports at 1:42 a.m. that they were trapped in the water, holding onto trees and bushes, the fire department shared in a social media statement.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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These bushes stay green year-round despite getting almost no summer rainfall.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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Key to the Battista’s muscle management are Brembo’s six-piston carbon-ceramic brakes that can bring the car from a speed of 62 mph to a complete stop in 101.7 feet.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
11 Feb. 2025
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But the human motivation to protect ourselves pushed engineers, designers, and policy makers to make ever safer vehicles, creating airbags (which save an additional 2,756 people annually), antilock brakes, and dozens of smaller but important safety innovations.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Chaparral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaparral. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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