How to Use Eurasian in a Sentence
Eurasian
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At dawn, cooing doves and trilling Eurasian blackbirds woke me.
—Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
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Haugen is seeing more and more Eurasian wigeon, which are rare ducks for most of us.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2025
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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
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The study bird, a Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), with a caterpillar in its beak.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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Some states allow year-round hunting for Eurasian collared doves with no bag limit.
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
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The saiga antelope roams the Eurasian steppe of Central Asia.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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The subject was Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, and his year on the loose in Manhattan.
—Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
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The country sits on top of where the Arabian tectonic plate is smashing into the Eurasian plate.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This year marks the largest gathering since the organization was formed in 2001 by six Eurasian nations.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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In the early decades of the 13th century, the great tectonic plates of Eurasian geopolitics shifted rapidly.
—Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
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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
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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
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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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For decades, scholars debated whether these languages spread from the Eurasian steppe or from early farmers in Anatolia, in what is now Turkey.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
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Here, the Eurasian and North American plates gradually draw away from one another, sending molten rock welling up from the deep to erupt at the surface.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
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First, the United States is embroiled in a major Eurasian rimland war, one that must be fought and won to preserve American power.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
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Myanmar is in one of the world’s most seismically active regions, where the Eurasian and Indian plates of the Earth’s crust grind against each other.
—Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Johnson, who has studied Bronze and Iron Age pastoralist societies of the Eurasian steppe, was not involved with the new research.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
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The failure of the West’s big bet on corroding the great Eurasian authoritarians has, for the time being, turned the West against itself.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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