pampas
Example Sentences
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On the pampas they may have been equally valued for their relatively fatty meat.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023
Years ago, when he read Bruce Chatwin’s “In Patagonia,” he retraced the writer’s 168-mile trek across the pampas of South America to the Cave of the Giant Sloth.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023
It was brought to Argentina's sprawling plains, or pampas, by British immigrants in the late 1800s, where it found a home alongside the South American country's iconic gaucho cowboys.
From Reuters • Apr. 12, 2022
From the window in her new room on the opposite side of the building, she views not reporters and cameras, but pampas grass, pine trees and birds visiting a birdbath.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2021
In the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the voyaging Charles Darwin discovered hundreds of square miles strangled by feral artichoke.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing pampas
South America - Middle School
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South America - High School
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