Examples of scrubland in a Sentence
a large area of scrubland
the scrublands of the American West
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Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
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Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
The multiple wildfires that have ravaged the state, have destroyed tens of thousands of acres of trees and scrubland, as well as people's homes.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
To the other, across a swath of scrubland dotted with auto-repair shops and small farms, was Jobar, a neighborhood of concrete apartment blocks.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
But many areas of the Southwest are actually scrubland.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
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Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
The multiple wildfires that have ravaged the state, have destroyed tens of thousands of acres of trees and scrubland, as well as people's homes.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
To the other, across a swath of scrubland dotted with auto-repair shops and small farms, was Jobar, a neighborhood of concrete apartment blocks.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
But many areas of the Southwest are actually scrubland.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrubland. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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scrubland
noun
scrub·land
ˈskrəb-ˌland 
: land covered with scrub
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