How to Use vegetation in a Sentence

vegetation

noun
  • This area with all the vegetation would go up in flames in a minute.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The ticks weren’t found on the beach, but in the vegetation that beachgoers might walk through to get to the beach.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 6 June 2021
  • The forward rate of spread of the vegetation fire has been stopped at 1 acre.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Using a tractor and rakes, crews move it from the beach to the line of vegetation.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Parts of it are so dry the ground is sharp and craggy, with no vegetation.
    New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The key to getting bass to bite was reeling the crankbait along the top of submerged vegetation.
    Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • All the vegetation gone more than the entire state of Maryland in square footage.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There's something about the mountains, vegetation, and the size of the valleys, plus the coast and islands.
    Thor Pedersen, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2025
  • The best time to see the village is summer -- when vegetation is in full bloom.
    Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
  • In parched forests, brush and grasslands, dry vegetation has been primed to burn, and has gone up in flames.
    Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2021
  • The fish tend to live in slow-moving streams or ponds with thick vegetation.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
  • The droughts will lead to wildfires, killing more vegetation and crops.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022
  • The goats were brought in to help expose the heavier, woody vegetation.
    Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
  • For hundreds of feet up and out, the vegetation had been destroyed.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Clear all vegetation from a five-foot buffer zone around the house.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The vegetation is bare, and there was snow on the river bank in addition to ice atop the water.
    Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Surface fires begin above the ground and burn dry vegetation such as leaves and grass.
    Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But on a grassland, the sparse vegetation might let more photons in.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Deep in the canyon of the Dan, the air has a pale chartreuse hue from all the vegetation on the walls above, and the air smells faintly of blooming rhododendron and mint.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The spill poisoned the river’s ecosystem for a 40-mile stretch, killing tens of thousands of fish, as well as all the bugs and vegetation.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The vegetation is mostly scrub, and the trees are nothing to write poems about.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The flames last month were fast and intense, wind-whipped and fueled by drought-dry vegetation.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
  • The amount of heat is related to the dryness of the fuel — trees and other vegetation, both dead and alive.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2021
  • The canyon creek began to flood yards and the surrounding hills, which were stripped of vegetation in the 2017 Thomas Fire, began to tumble down in the dark.
    Brian Melley, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Some sections of the stairs, which cut through mud and thick vegetation, have shifted.
    New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The 38-year-old didn’t grow up with lawns in Poland, where native vegetation such as wheat and daisies were more common in yards.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The car caught fire, and the blaze spread to surrounding vegetation, said Chula Vista fire Capt.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Shacks are perched on cliffs with little vegetation to hold soil in place.
    Mark Stevenson and Julie Watson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In some areas, the vibrant blue water is clear enough to see the lake bottom and the fish and vegetation living underneath the surface.
    Amy Nelson, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The pair's bodies were found at the base of a rock, while vehicle parts were scattered in the nearby vegetation, CNN Brazil reported.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025

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