heather

Example Sentences

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Before her stretched a vast treeless waste, where heather and dwarf willow hugged the ground in a vain attempt to avoid the wind; where small peat-brown lakes shivered amid tossing marsh grass.

From Literature

Eventually the houses at the roadside stopped altogether, and they were driving along mountain roads, past lochs and heather.

From Literature

Only decades ago many of the cottages in Scotland’s Highlands were roofed in heather, bracken and marram grass.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We had a search recently and underneath a load of heather where you couldn't see a thing from the surface, Henry recovered a tiny bird's skull."

From BBC

Muirburns are controlled fires set burn off old heather and other vegetation on grouse shooting estates.

From BBC