Sentence examples for were land from inspiring English sources

Most of the creatures caught in traps were land crabs, too.

Among the achievements of Le Loi's reign were land reforms to help the peasant class.

After all, they were land birds, not sea birds that could dive for food in the ocean.

"Walking in Hyde Park you would instinctively avoid the grassy areas in case there were land mines.

Among the plates he wrote were "Land of Lincoln" for Illinois, "Great Lake State" for Michigan, and "The First State" for Delaware.

The swimmers were "land drilling," which meant running through the routine on the deck, looking like a cross between cheerleaders and ninjas.

She found out, for instance, that their ancestors were land-dwelling hooved animals that took to the sea some 55 million years ago.

In the rehearsal space, she asked the people in the room to raise their hands if they were land-owning white men; not surprisingly, no one did.

In fact, the Ingallses retreated east more than once, while the self-styled "pioneers" were land-grabbing as fast as they could: manifest destiny was a giant get-rich-quick scheme.

Then we were landing.

We were landing!