Examples of scrubland in a Sentence
a large area of scrubland
the scrublands of the American West
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Camel caravans on the Silk Road once passed through this flat, dusty scrubland.
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Shilo Urban, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
Somewhere in the Texas scrubland sits a shed the size of several football fields, packed with billions of dollars' worth of computer chips and drawing the power of a small city.
—Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Thursday night’s detonation of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test produced a spectacular fireball over Florida, sending shards of the rocket flying far and wide, into the sea and across the coastal scrubland nearby.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
So is neighboring Idaho, home to a federal nuclear lab, and Utah, where Governor Spencer Cox recently staged a press conference in the barren scrubland west of Salt Lake City.
—Kirk Siegler, NPR, 2 May 2026
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Shilo Urban, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
Somewhere in the Texas scrubland sits a shed the size of several football fields, packed with billions of dollars' worth of computer chips and drawing the power of a small city.
—Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Thursday night’s detonation of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test produced a spectacular fireball over Florida, sending shards of the rocket flying far and wide, into the sea and across the coastal scrubland nearby.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
So is neighboring Idaho, home to a federal nuclear lab, and Utah, where Governor Spencer Cox recently staged a press conference in the barren scrubland west of Salt Lake City.
—Kirk Siegler, NPR, 2 May 2026
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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrubland. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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scrubland
noun
scrub·land
ˈskrəb-ˌland 
: land covered with scrub
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