Examples of scrubland in a Sentence
a large area of scrubland
the scrublands of the American West
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In 1980 the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., hired him to create an artwork for a new flood wall along a 600-foot stretch of dirt and scrubland.
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Clay Risen, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Such projects can and often are placed on old landfill properties, but these are still more expensive than farmland or scrubland.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
Al-Hol was created decades ago, in a stretch of scrubland about ten miles west of the Iraqi border, as a haven for refugees.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Outside Delta, a one-stoplight town in the scrublands of central Utah, a giant battery is taking shape underground.
—Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
In some New Jersey scrubland, two telegraph poles interrupt a low skyline whose only attraction is a big red Coca-Cola sign in the distance.
—Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
The nods to classic Westerns are immediately obvious to those with even a passing acquaintance with the genre: a lone figure framed in a doorway, shot from behind, looking out onto a landscape of flat scrublands; the casual violence meted out to the amoral inhabitants of this stark world.
—Nick Holdsworth, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
About 48 percent of the land sited for photovoltaic projects and 43 percent of the land for concentrating solar power (CSP) projects were on shrub or scrublands.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2015
More than 12,000 people have been evacuated and about 13,400 hectares (33,000 acres) of pine forest and scrubland have burned.
—Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
Clay Risen, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Such projects can and often are placed on old landfill properties, but these are still more expensive than farmland or scrubland.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
Al-Hol was created decades ago, in a stretch of scrubland about ten miles west of the Iraqi border, as a haven for refugees.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Outside Delta, a one-stoplight town in the scrublands of central Utah, a giant battery is taking shape underground.
—Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
In some New Jersey scrubland, two telegraph poles interrupt a low skyline whose only attraction is a big red Coca-Cola sign in the distance.
—Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
The nods to classic Westerns are immediately obvious to those with even a passing acquaintance with the genre: a lone figure framed in a doorway, shot from behind, looking out onto a landscape of flat scrublands; the casual violence meted out to the amoral inhabitants of this stark world.
—Nick Holdsworth, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
About 48 percent of the land sited for photovoltaic projects and 43 percent of the land for concentrating solar power (CSP) projects were on shrub or scrublands.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2015
More than 12,000 people have been evacuated and about 13,400 hectares (33,000 acres) of pine forest and scrubland have burned.
—Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrubland. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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scrubland
noun
scrub·land
ˈskrəb-ˌland 
: land covered with scrub
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