How to Use Eurasian in a Sentence

Eurasian

adjective
  • At dawn, cooing doves and trilling Eurasian blackbirds woke me.
    — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • Haugen is seeing more and more Eurasian wigeon, which are rare ducks for most of us.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2025
  • This one is Eurasian in origin, first seen in 2022.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Hydrilla is believed to be Eurasian in origin.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2026
  • With a wingspan of up to 6 feet, the Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the world’s largest owls.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The study bird, a Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), with a caterpillar in its beak.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • There is no daily bag limit on Eurasian Collared dove.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Some states allow year-round hunting for Eurasian collared doves with no bag limit.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • The saiga antelope roams the Eurasian steppe of Central Asia.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Frankopan is at his most confident on the drier terrain of the Eurasian steppe, the setting of his last book.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • The pitch range was very similar to that of two kinds of raptors known to nest in the area, Eurasian kestrels and sparrow hawks.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Eurasian eagle owl, for instance, is one of the largest and most widely distributed owls in the world.
    — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • The subject was Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, and his year on the loose in Manhattan.
    — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The country sits on top of where the Arabian tectonic plate is smashing into the Eurasian plate.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
  • This is the second death of a Eurasian eagle owl at the zoo in less than three years, according to the Star Tribune.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Then alewives, sea lampreys, Eurasian watermilfoil and others all were introduced into the lake and made their mark.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • There are no female Eurasian eagle-owls in New York, and so for Flaco, no potential mates.
    — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Etna sits near where the African plate meets the Eurasian plate, but from there the situation grows complex, Behncke explains.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • On the one hand, associating Russia with the Eurasian steppe is a political move.
    — Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The hotel is surrounded by extensive black pine forests and wildlife sightings like Eurasian brown bears, wolves, and Balkan chamois are all possible.
    — Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Morocco is positioned at the juncture of a slow-motion tectonic crash between the African and Eurasian plates.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • These criticisms should not be taken to mean that the Eurasian comparative framework for Russia is misplaced.
    — Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • This year marks the largest gathering since the organization was formed in 2001 by six Eurasian nations.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl flew from his enclosure in Central Park Zoo and into the hearts of millions around the world.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
  • To be sure, the United States is not likely to be central to developments in the Eurasian interior.
    — Jeffrey Mankoff, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2025
  • In the early decades of the 13th century, the great tectonic plates of Eurasian geopolitics shifted rapidly.
    — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • Earthquakes are common in the Himalayan region, which spans a fault line between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • On conventional maps, trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent were assumed to avoid the mountains of Central Asia.
    — Hannah Peart, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The boost came in part from two of the sanctuary’s newest residents, Eurasian brown bear Matilda and black bear Herbie, Smeltzer said.
    — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • This material is so valuable that, hundreds of years ago, it was traded across the ancient world, shipped via a Eurasian network of paths known as the Silk Road.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024

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