Examples of scrubland in a Sentence
a large area of scrubland
the scrublands of the American West
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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.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
This is Everglades cattle country, with miles upon miles of slash pines and flat scrubland, pristine and still untouched by developers just 35 miles from Palm Beach County’s suburban sprawl.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Common to woodlands, scrublands, savanna and villages across most of East Africa, they can be found in small flocks, usually making a variety of noisy scolds and shrieks at anyone within earshot.
—Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The Wall Ranch, in Eagle Pass, Texas, occupies a thousand acres of scrubland along the Mexican border.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
This is Everglades cattle country, with miles upon miles of slash pines and flat scrubland, pristine and still untouched by developers just 35 miles from Palm Beach County’s suburban sprawl.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Common to woodlands, scrublands, savanna and villages across most of East Africa, they can be found in small flocks, usually making a variety of noisy scolds and shrieks at anyone within earshot.
—Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The Wall Ranch, in Eagle Pass, Texas, occupies a thousand acres of scrubland along the Mexican border.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrubland. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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scrubland
noun
scrub·land
ˈskrəb-ˌland 
: land covered with scrub
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