prairie

Example Sentences

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Once out of the prairie in western Minnesota, the scenery got more conventional, with more towns, as well as larger cities.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

I’m usually a loyalist to the cornmeal-swirled muffin — I love that little grainy grit, the way it reins in lush summer fruit with a bit of prairie stoicism.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

But its allure is being winnowed away by the noxious Russian thistle, the spread of which is entirely the fault of the ceaseless and unforgiving prairie wind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

The dusty grass verges surrounding the prison are teeming with noisy prairie dogs scurrying into their burrows whenever disturbed by prison vehicles coming and going.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

There, you can run for miles along yellow prairie and never see a car, and at night, it’s pitch-black as a coal mine.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti