brushland

Example Sentences

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But if strong north winds continued to blow, The Times reported, the blaze would engulf remote mountain areas inaccessible to firefighters and fuel up on dense brushland.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025

Verdant woods gave way to scrubby brushland and desert; most of the large mammals disappeared.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 2023

Davenport originally moved from Seattle to the wheat-growing area with the thought of living in the silo, accessed on gravel on Old Missile Site Road North, past wire gates and brushland.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022

The Del Rio sector, a gargantuan 47-county riverfront region of sparsely populated brushland, is the second-busiest on the entire Southwest Border.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021

Stalk land, fallow fields, and brushland, all appeared to be sewn together by wide fencerow stitches of trees.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong