Sentence examples for vast grassland from inspiring English sources

Heat and smoke had turned the vast grassland into a sterile, stinking black inferno, a prairie Armageddon.

A park ranger had pointed him to the quince's mother tree at the San Rafael Ranch, a vast grassland that once straddled the Mexican border.

This vast grassland basin is set in a region known as South Park and, yes, here lies the town of Fairplay, upon which the animated sitcom is said to be based.

This culture area comprises a vast grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and from present-day provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada through the present-day state of Texas in the United States.

Although, for the moment, the militia have melted from sight, the latest battles in Algeria and Mali are harbingers of a larger catastrophe: the Sahel, the vast grassland north of the equator, has become the latest battleground in the west's war against Islamist militants.

For most of its length, the Orinoco flows through impenetrable rain forest or through the vast grassland (savanna) region of the Llanos ("Plains"), which occupies three-fifths of the Orinoco basin north of the Guaviare River and west of the lower Orinoco River and the Guiana Highlands.

Before cultivation, such areas were often vast grasslands.

Wildfires racing across vast grasslands claimed at least 19 lives over the weekend, including those of firefighters, the government said.

Mongolian shamanism arose from the vast grasslands thousands of years before Buddhism arrived from Tibet in the 16th century.

The vast grasslands seemed ideal for cattle, but a severe winter in 1886 87 virtually wiped out the herds.

On the third day the Chacabuco mountains loom in front of us, vast grasslands stretching down into the Chacabuco valley, where 30,000 sheep and cattle used to graze.