land of plenty
Example Sentences
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The country — fed not by one but two mighty rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates — is thought to be where humans first started cultivation: Mesopotamia, the land of plenty.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2021
No one moves to Detroit expecting an idyllic land of plenty, but Seattle has regularly been featured at the top of lists of “most livable cities.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2021
This grand Moscow store was a land of plenty since the czars.
From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021
The politician, says Hackett, was “talking friendly”, encouraging people to migrate to a land of plenty with “loads of jobs”.
From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2020
America is not, never has been, and never will be what the songs and poems call it, a land of plenty.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
