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Prairies in sentence

19 examples of Prairies in a sentence

It used to be prairies and forests and prairie potholes and duck areas and all kinds of stuff.
This is how the prairies were built, the relationship between bison and grasses.
And for a while we looked on the prairies of Minnesota, where actually there is a very high proportion of centenarians.
Unfortunately, they got the tone -- and the script -- completely wrong for the prairies.
After reading the other reviews for this film I am of the opinion that the high markers are probably paid studio lackeys as the film I saw was absolutely dire, with wooden acting, lacklustre scripting and plodding predictable directing, one of the few plus points has to be the stunning scenery as this film features some stunning backdrops with great sweeping vistas and dramatic skies and wide open prairies, sadly when the most memorable thing in a film is the part featured behind the actors this has to be a warning sign as to the quality of the movie, all in all a thoroughly uninspiring addition to the western genre which even at the very reasonable price it can be obtained on DVD is best to avoid.
Who are the people who are watching this show anyway, I am being honest is it old people or maybe just people who actually live on the prairies?
The world could continue to close its eyes to global warming and hope for the best: a slightly warmer climate that produces as many winners (on the Siberian, Northern European, and Canadian prairies) as losers (in already-hot regions that become hotter and dryer), and that the Gulf Stream continues warming Europe, the monsoons are not disrupted, and that the Ganges delta is not drowned by stronger typhoons.
When you look at an aerial photograph of housing developments spreading into prairies or logging operations obliterating rain forests, it's hard to avoid entertaining a frightening possibility: we are parasites.
Like the flocks of old Proteus, King Neptune's shepherd, my herds graze without fear on the ocean's immense prairies.
For two hours we were sometimes led over plains of sand, sometimes over prairies of seaweed that were quite arduous to cross.
Here I saw no fine-grained sand, no underwater prairies, not one open-sea forest.
Certain authors have even held that the many weeds strewn over this sea were torn loose from the prairies of that ancient continent.
In essence, manatees, like seals, are designed to graze the underwater prairies, destroying the clusters of weeds that obstruct the mouths of tropical rivers.
Between himself and a purple circle of hills lay fifteen miles of profitless, rolling ground, jagged with laterite rocks, and studded with unthrifty trees all given up to drought and dust, and all colorless as the sun-bleached locks of a child of the prairies.
Sombre, desolate, oppressive, withering under a brazen sun, it smote him with its likeness to his own prairies, and with its homesick unlikeness.
The road grew, on the prairies, a mile and a half a day.
Having breakfasted, Mr. Fogg and his companions resumed their places in the car, and observed the varied landscape which unfolded itself as they passed along the vast prairies, the mountains lining the horizon, and the creeks, with their frothy, foaming streams.
The country around the lake was well cultivated, for the Mormons are mostly farmers; while ranches and pens for domesticated animals, fields of wheat, corn, and other cereals, luxuriant prairies, hedges of wild rose, clumps of acacias and milk-wort, would have been seen six months later.
Provided with more sails than a cutter, and with the wind behind them, they slip over the surface of the prairies with a speed equal if not superior to that of the express trains.