How to Use boreal in a Sentence

boreal

adjective
  • Their habitat ranges from tundra and boreal forests to deserts.
    — Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Over much of their range, boreal owls operate in the dark every night.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
  • There’s something really fresh about the boreal forests on the coast.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 17 June 2022
  • These two traits rank boreal forests among the most important ecosystems on Earth.
    — David J. Cooper, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In Minnesota, moose used to roam the boreal forests by the thousands.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In this distant, boreal place, the sea had turned into a gardener.
    — Adrian Higgins, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The nine of us filed onto a four-wheeler trail that led off the highway and into the boreal forest.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019
  • Canada lynx are elusive wildcats that live in cold boreal forests and prey mainly on snowshoe hares.
    — Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Alaska's boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide in the world.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Wood frogs waited in tundra ponds, magpies in shrub thickets, red squirrels in boreal woods.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Then everyone gets a chance to enjoy a mile-long ride through Churchill's boreal forest.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • In boreal forests, changes in habitat and the tree canopy alter patterns of animal movement.
    — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Due to early snow melt and a lack of rain in June, the duff layer that blankets the floors of boreal forests and the tundra has dried out.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 25 July 2022
  • The second-largest country in the world, Canada has one of the planet’s largest intact boreal forests.
    — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
  • My family lived in the boreal forest for two-thirds of every year, from before ice breakup until snowfall and freeze-up.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The park is a mix of boreal forest and tundra along the eastern shoreline of Great Slave Lake.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Sixty-six are aquatic species, and 59 are terrestrial, like the boreal top snail.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Striking in its long, narrow shape and encased in boreal beauty, Birch Lake, too, has given over to time.
    — Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Visitors can take a small-boat tour of the surrounding waters, which are filled with humpback whales, or a driving tour through boreal forest.
    — Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
  • More than half of Canada’s landmass is comprised of the boreal forest—a vast and tree-filled region that extends across the country.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
  • The company’s pollution has carved a barren landscape of dead and dying trees out of the taiga, or boreal forest, one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
    — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • But while the beetles are considered to play a role in the boreal forest lifecycle, outbreaks in the modern era have been different than those in the past.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Stories about the presence of great gray, boreal and Northern hawk owls garnered national news, bringing in birders from around the world.
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • By showing how the boreal forest interacts with all life on Earth, Rawlence paints a grim picture of where we’re headed.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Picture the boreal forest, in northern Quebec, on the morning of June 1st.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • According to the report, the decline was a direct result of fewer wildfires in the boreal forests of Russia.
    — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • The distribution of the tree cover is the most dense in the southern portions of the boreal biome and decreases to the north, according to the paper.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Through the summer, the boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere absorb a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide.
    — Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2021
  • More than one-third of the world’s remaining large intact forest acreage lies in the boreal forests of the far north, mainly in Canada and Russia.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The long-legged, large-antlered member of the deer family is found in the tundra, taiga and boreal forest ecosystems from Alaska to Labrador.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017

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