scrubland

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Recent Examples of scrubland From Montana’s high plains to the rolling scrublands of Texas, expansive ranches—some rivaling national parks in size—are being scooped up at staggering prices. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 June 2025 Dust devils spun in the distance, moving like flying whirlpools across the scrubland. Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025 Just a few decades later, however, historic records describe sand dunes and scrublands invading the green valleys, water shortages, and in 1578 a massive El Niño flood that nearly ended the young colony. Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025 This expert guide will get you off the ground T. J. Diaz 25 Jun 2015 10 min read Photo: DJI The camera swoops in on the face of a cliff rising more than 100 meters from the surrounding scrublands. IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2015 See All Example Sentences for scrubland
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
Noun
  • Among other duties, Zilber worked to maintain the forest grounds and educate students and residents on sustainable forest management, according to a news release from Evers' office.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • With more than 520,000 acres of dense forest and its location near the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the park is a prime spot for leaf-peeping.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The strategy has helped to transform land that’s naturally an arid mix of coastal sage and chaparral and deserts into an economic and cultural powerhouse.
    Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2025
  • It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.
    Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Henrot positions it such that its indented form emphasizes the dark thicket of his pubic hair au naturel.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Then, as if that were not enough excitement for any hunter at one time, a big mule-deer buck broke out of the thicket and bounded away to my left, straight for Sally.
    Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • She’s squatted on her heels within a tight copse of five or six stones leaning like dolmens, chin on chest as if an engrossing thing lies between her feet.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies.
    Jess Thomson, Wired News, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.
    Azera Parveen Rahman, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • In 1979, five months after my seventh birthday, my father crashed his plane into an orange grove and died.
    Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The property has a 1,600-square-foot garage/workshop equipped with power and water for the hobbyist or car collector, and a citrus grove with Satsuma mandarins, oranges, limes and lemons.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Allsbrook was last seen wearing a brown woodland style camouflage shirt or jacket, black shorts and black shoes, police said.
    Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2025
  • This year’s limited-edition packaging, designed with Ukrainian tattoo artist Sasha Unisex, features bold geometric woodland motifs—making it as much a collectible piece of art as a makeup essential.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
    Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020

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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrubland. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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