plains
Example Sentences
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McMurtry was born in 1936 in Archer City, a town of a few thousand on the sunbaked and featureless plains of north-central Texas.
At the time, this region was an elevated landscape surrounded by hot, dry plains.
From Science Daily
‘Well, yes. The Ice clans. But they live out on the plains, not on the ice river.’
From Literature
He said the count was "going smoothly" across the Himalayan nation, from snowbound mountain regions to the hot plains bordering India.
From Barron's
But all eyes will be focused on the hot farming plains south of the capital, where all three prime ministerial hopefuls are contesting seats -- a departure from past elections that focused on the capital Kathmandu.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
