Sentence examples for prairie have from inspiring English sources

In recent years, the rolling farmlands of Pennsylvania, the bourbon-producing valleys of Kentucky and the tall grasses of the Oklahoma prairie have provided many a visual epiphany.

Milder temperatures on the Colorado prairie have led to a decline of a native grass species, the prime feed for local livestock.

Coastline areas, including dunes and coastal prairie, have been invaded by exotic species, partly due to the suppression of forest fires until the 1980s.

The prairie had swallowed his horse rocks.

Much of the original forest and prairie has been cleared for agriculture and urbanization.

(A few months earlier, his 1876 "In the Prairie" had sold for $22.5 million at Sotheby's).

"Playing with Little House on the Prairie, having a sleepover?" she sneers on (maybe) day three of Joanna's arrival.

Great Plains The prairie has lent its name to a long list of flora and fauna: the western prairie fringed orchid and the prairie mole cricket make their homes here, as do both the greater and lesser prairie-chicken.

In North America, much of the prairie has been given over to arable farming using fertilisers, which has turned it into a dustbowl.

Near our tents, patches of the prairie had been peeled up by bears, but we did not see large animals there, just their traces.

But Natalie, a librarian specializing in Americana and a confirmed watcher of "Little House on the Prairie," has something different in mind.