as in steppe
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
you can see for miles in every direction on the prairie
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Recent Examples of prairie
When prairie goes under the plow, most of the organic matter disappears, turning living water‑holding, nutrient‑rich soil into mineral dust.
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Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Friends of Tandy Hills, a group that works to protect a 220-acre native prairie in Fort Worth, will receive a financial boost from the Native Plant Society of Texas to pay interns to man the park this year.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
The colorful flying insects adorning the mural near 64th Street and Becher Place in West Allis could soon be joined by real-life counterparts — if a local group achieves its goal of transforming the area into a prairie pollinator garden.
—Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Channel your inner prairie girl in Dôen’s signature puff-sleeve Ashlynn midi.
—Laura Jackson, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2026
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Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Friends of Tandy Hills, a group that works to protect a 220-acre native prairie in Fort Worth, will receive a financial boost from the Native Plant Society of Texas to pay interns to man the park this year.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
The colorful flying insects adorning the mural near 64th Street and Becher Place in West Allis could soon be joined by real-life counterparts — if a local group achieves its goal of transforming the area into a prairie pollinator garden.
—Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Channel your inner prairie girl in Dôen’s signature puff-sleeve Ashlynn midi.
—Laura Jackson, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for prairie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prairie
Noun
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Longer-running hiking trips take you everywhere from Western Greenland to the sea cliffs of the Faroe Islands, the steppes of Mongolia, or the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan.—
The Editors,
Outside,
18 Mar. 2026
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Folktales are filled with people fighting to survive in forests, steppes, and deserts, and evading and outwitting the wild beasts that dwell within them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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It’s supposed to be rolling plains, prairies … with intermittent tree cover.—
Julia James,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Mar. 2026
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While the airport fell just short of 90 degrees, many communities across the plains surged into the low 90s — an extraordinary feat for March.—
Joe Ruch,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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The grassland fire was burning with a rapid rate of spread and the potential to reach 200 acres, the agency said.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Together, these animals point to a warmer, wetter interglacial period — not the cold, dry grassland that scientists typically associate with the region.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2026
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This comparison only goes so far, of course; a theme‑park savanna and the real thing are as different as Orlando and Tsavo are distant.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
18 Mar. 2026
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The insect thrives in warm savanna woodlands and in vegetation along lakes or streams, so the disease tends to take hold in remote areas where people rely on fishing, hunting and agriculture for their livelihoods.—
Fran Kritz,
NPR,
16 Mar. 2026
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There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.—
Eric Sheets,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
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The earthy palette of browns, pampa greens, and guanaco beiges further enhances the collection’s life-in-the-great-outdoors vibe, only occasionally countered with pops of vivid blue and black.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
18 Nov. 2025
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The lush meadows that result make excellent hiding places for small invertebrate animals.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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Unhoused people eventually returned, drawn by its central location, the privacy of the meadows and the prospect of mutual protection.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The prospect of being stuck in a jeep watching wildebeest pour through the veld did not intrigue me.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The Atlantic,
17 Mar. 2026
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Then the curse of the fathers found me — slow at first, like a rumor rolling over the veld, then sudden, like a snare snapping shut on bone.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Prairie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prairie. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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