steppe
Example Sentences
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Increased interaction with animals and expanding travel across the steppe may have exposed people to disease reservoirs in the environment.
From Science Daily
I was two days into the Gobi March, a brutal 155-mile ultramarathon through the steppes, sand dunes and rock valleys of Central Mongolia.
Four years ago, almost to the day, I was at the main railway station in Kyiv, watching a scene straight out of Europe's dark past play out in a bitter wind off the Ukrainian steppe.
From BBC
They also compared the bone of modern elephants and steppe mammoths to determine which animal it came from.
From BBC
They paired them with horn-shaped hats designed to protect against enemy arrows and survive the biting cold of the Mongolian steppes—and a trip to Northern Italy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
