scrubland

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Recent Examples of scrubland Dust devils spun in the distance, moving like flying whirlpools across the scrubland. Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025 Led To Safety By Richard De Gouveia In Richard de Gouveia’s Led to Safety, a female southern white rhino is guided away through the scrublands of South Africa’s Marataba Camps. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 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
  • The partial closure order was coordinated with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, along with multiple local, state, and federal agency cooperators, to identify the minimum area necessary for the safety of firefighting resources and forest visitors.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Cal Fire claims to manage half of Jackson to promote such old-forest conditions.
    John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.
    Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Learn about the various lizards and snakes of Southern California’s mountains and chaparrals.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Their remains were often dumped in thickets or submerged in sewer lines around Nairobi, police said, per AFP.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Plush lawns and thickets of towering palms unite the various structures, while a demilune hot tub faces the water alongside a stone terrace that steps down to the estate’s private 250-plus-foot crescent beach.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 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
  • Along the way, guests might watch kingfishers dart through palm groves, pause at the Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary, or step ashore to see traditional boat builders at work.
    Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Wander through rose gardens, bamboo groves, an edible garden with more than 800 varieties of fruits and vegetables (nearly all of which is donated to local food banks), and a butterfly garden filled with species that attract other pollinators and hummingbirds.
    Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Leaf-peeping draws travelers to woodlands across New England, but autumn gets equally splendid out west—especially in Grand Teton, my favorite national park to visit in the fall.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
  • One morning in South Luangwa, our guide, Elias, led us quietly through the mopane woodland.
    Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 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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