Examples of grassland in a Sentence

stunning pictures of the giraffes and zebras roaming the grasslands of Africa

Recent Examples on the Web Over the next few centuries, though, that scrub forest gave way to a large, open meadow amid a patchwork landscape of grassland, forest, and wetland. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022 The Facebook post claims the video shows the North Pole, but the footage shows a dry grassland in the foreground. — Dezimey Kum, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022 But the plans to set ablaze the three-acre meadow are all but set in stone, which Christine Mansfield, marketing and development manager at the arboretum, says is necessary to protect the grassland ecosystem in the long run. — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 Mar. 2022 Natural disasters like the recent winter grassland fire in Colorado will become more common with the changing climate, experts say. — Shanzeh Ahmad, chicagotribune.com, 23 Jan. 2022 Climate models need to link rising temperatures on a global scale to changing conditions in a local forest, watershed, grassland or agricultural zone, says NCAR forest ecologist Jacquelyn Shuman, right; NCAR scientist Gerald Meehl, left. — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022 California is 33 percent forest, 7 percent grassland and 8 percent chaparral (bushes and shrubs). — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022 California is 33% forest, 7% grassland and 8% chaparral (bushes and shrubs). — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2022 In some places, scientists say, tree conditions have gotten so bad that forests aren’t likely to recover and, as a result, woodlands will be increasingly replaced by shrubs and grassland. — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2021 See More

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