upland
Example Sentences
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History is not a world-spirit moving inexorably towards some breezy, sunlit upland of wisdom.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Afternoon tours at Ryan Bonaminio Park in Riverside, which features restored native plants from local floodplains and upland areas that support pollinators, will be held at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Sir David Attenborough has championed a bid by conservationists to raise £30m to buy the entirety of a vast upland estate.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025
Ancient maize genomes from the Ozark rockshelters indicated that maize entered eastern North America at least twice, tracing ancestry to both the upland US Southwest and southern Texas.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024
Dividing the upland into two there marched a double line of unshaped standing stones that dwindled into the dusk and vanished in the trees.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
