Sentence examples for prairie with a from inspiring English sources
They were squeezed together in a one-room shanty on the howling prairie with a squalling baby, braving blizzards and temperatures that routinely froze the thermometer at -40C, surviving on salt pork and fried bread.
"The bulk of mankind," he wrote, "declare that a prairie with corn growing on it, and a log house or two with a corrugated iron roof, is a more pleasing sight than the same prairie with a herd of wild horses on it, and the beaver swimming in every creek".
In rural Great Falls, Mont., a small ranch house stands on the prairie with a sign at the gated entrance that reads "Ace in the Hole".
"These people love the prairie with a passion". With monotype, the reverse image is painted on glass, then the pane is pressed into soft paper for the positive image.
He managed to complete the facility on time and under budget, but at the same time made it aesthetically pleasing, with a main administrative building purposely reminiscent of the Beauvais Cathedral, and a restored prairie with a herd of American Bison.
I recall regretting his very severe linear sculptures in 1965, which I now admire, and in 1967 praising the more engaging Prairie with an enthusiasm I still feel.
His writing was a critical influence for Nate Silver, among many others — it's possible that data-journalism outlets such as Silver's FiveThirtyEight and the Times' The Upshot would not exist without the groundwork laid by an amateur on the prairie with an addiction to watching the Red Sox on TV (which James pronounces "TEE-vee").
Home to 1.7 million residents, the Kansas City metropolitan area is the eastern gateway to the nation's prairies, with a fistful of freeways twirling off in all directions.
She was as round as a prairie hen, with a surprised mouth, always laughing and curious.
A prairie populist with a left-wing voting record, he provokes the same sort of frothing at the mouth among conservative Iowans as Bill Clinton does among conservative southerners.
All except the journalist, who said, "Good question!" The last house I went to was a gray stucco prairie house with a chimney cloaked in dead ivy.
