Examples of open country in a Sentence
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From the Aerie Trailhead start on Cockscomb Trail for a mile across open country.
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Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
The best bighorn trophies taken today are rams that have matured in these parks and are shot in open country outside their borders.
—Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
That’s heavy if your primary goal is backpacking through open country where huge 60-liter bags often weigh less than 3 pounds (1.36kg).
—Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2024
Trains do burn less fuel per ton of cargo than trucks while moving across open country.
—John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
The right to walk in open country has been slowly reclaimed over more than a century.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 12 May 2024
And maybe Lincoln, who illuminates the body politic on so many levels, and articulates things so beautifully, can remind us about what our open country produced.
—Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
This will be good for the economic dynamics of Mexico, which is an open country.
—Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
The best bighorn trophies taken today are rams that have matured in these parks and are shot in open country outside their borders.
—Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
That’s heavy if your primary goal is backpacking through open country where huge 60-liter bags often weigh less than 3 pounds (1.36kg).
—Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2024
Trains do burn less fuel per ton of cargo than trucks while moving across open country.
—John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
The right to walk in open country has been slowly reclaimed over more than a century.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 12 May 2024
And maybe Lincoln, who illuminates the body politic on so many levels, and articulates things so beautifully, can remind us about what our open country produced.
—Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
This will be good for the economic dynamics of Mexico, which is an open country.
—Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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“Open country.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20country. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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