How to Use bottomland in a Sentence

bottomland

noun
  • Mike was in a bottomland tree stand ahead of us, near the edge of the property.
    — Jim Moore, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
  • There is quite a large area of bottomland forest and marshlands year round.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Sugar maples often grow in rich, moist bottomlands in the wild.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The rich soil, bottomland, is blessed with yearlong sunshine and warmth.
    — T. Christian Miller, Propublica, Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar, star-telegram, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The park has the largest most old growth bottomland hardwood forest in the country.
    — Discover Staff, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2016
  • On the other side were lowlands filled with bottomland hardwoods.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Often, deer that bed in flatter creek or river bottomlands bed close to the water.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Forests that grow on the floodplain are called floodplain forests, sometimes also called bottomland forests.
    — Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • All Saints was built on about 16 acres of bottomland, perfect for farming.
    — Bob Smietana, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Pueblo structures still stand under red cliffs, while modern-day Navajos farm the bottomlands.
    — azcentral, 15 May 2015
  • Historic hideouts aside, the park is home to the largest remaining tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Long-term plans call for wetland restoration to return the land to a natural bottomland hardwood forest.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Southern magnolia is native to moist woodlands and bottomlands along the coastal plains where the seeds are eaten by birds and other wildlife.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Southern magnolia is native to moist woodlands and bottomlands along the coastal plains where the seeds are eaten by birds and other wildlife.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Long-term plans call for wetland restoration to return the land to its natural bottomland hardwood forest.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 8 July 2022
  • Congaree is a haven for four-legged friends who want to meander through the country's largest old growth bottomland hardwood forest.
    — Emily Pennington, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The benches and picnic tables are built to handle the flooding expected in this bottomland.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The biggest challenge in the restoration has been replanting the bottomland forest.
    — Sheila Stroup, NOLA.com, 10 June 2017
  • Reports of 300-pounders are filtering out of the cypress-gum bottomlands.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
  • To have vast acreage of both bottomland hardwoods and upland timberland that’s in production, is very appealing.
    — al, 18 Aug. 2022
  • This subspecies lives in mixed pine and hardwood ecosystems especially in bottomland and upland areas.
    — Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The Hastain Trail begins near Doheny’s old spread along the bottomlands.
    — Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Behind the protection of levees, cities and towns grew and farms expanded into rich bottomlands adjacent to the river.
    — Tristan Baurick, nola.com, 15 June 2019
  • According to Babst, some bottomland forests have already suffered tree death because of years of constant flooding.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 July 2021
  • Oaks divide roughly into upland and bottomland species, the former suited to difficult dry sites and the latter to areas that get soggy.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Charles Cocke, a descendant who lives in Charlottesville, said he was thrilled by the discovery and planned to plant it on bottomland next season.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Here, not far from Vicksburg, Mississippi, lies one of the largest expanses of bottomland forest left in this part of the country.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
  • The property’s resources include freshwater marsh, cypress-gum swamp, and forests of bottomland hardwoods, loblolly pine and longleaf pine.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • This 400-acre preserve features plants native to the Chesapeake region and includes five miles of trails through meadows, forest and bottomland.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Prairie massasaugas are a subspecies of the western massasaugas and are endangered in Missouri, living in wet prairies or bottomlands with lots of crayfish burrows and grass.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026

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