How to Use bushland in a Sentence

bushland

noun
  • So from many places in the bushlands camp fires send up their smoke.
    — Longreads, 29 Aug. 2017
  • This is true to form; Australians spend a lot of time not thinking about their bushland.
    — Time, 23 Jan. 2020
  • That’s my sense of home is those animals and the sounds and the feels of the bushland and those animals being in them.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Over five years of study, the bushland wallabies produced offspring right on cue, six weeks post-solstice.
    — Babak Tafreshi, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Hot springs bubble by the lake shores and giant baobab trees, which the park’s leopards are inclined to climb, stand amid the bushland and forest. Lions are known to rest in the branches of the woodland’s trees and hippos bath in the shallow water before emerging to graze after dark.
    — Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • See the moment Air Wing located a woman, who was missing for five days in dense bushland.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 9 May 2023
  • Against the rising level of poverty, against the deforestation of the bushland and against the spread of the Sahara.
    — Alicia Prager, Quartz Africa, 18 Oct. 2019
  • On Sunday, helicopters loaded with boxes of sweet potatoes and carrots flew over bushland and canyons.
    — Fox News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Officials believe Milne turned off the highway at some point and became lost in the bushland, Rothwell said.
    — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Nearly 18 million acres of land has been burned -- most of it bushland, forests and national parks, which are home to the country's native wildlife.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 10 Jan. 2020
  • In the footage, Doherty ran into the burning bushland from her car, immediately wrapping the koala in the shirt off her own back.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The blazes have killed people and wiped out towns, but most of what is burning is bushland, eucalyptus forests and national park land, where the country’s unique wildlife resides.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Starting fires is a common, though controversial, way of managing grasslands to stimulate lush new growth and to control the spread of bushland.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • For guests hoping to see the island’s recovery firsthand, a series of walking trails begin from the lodge’s doorstep traversing limestone cliffs, bushland tracks, and pristine beach shores.
    — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Almost 4 million hectares of forest and bushland—an area almost twice the size of Wales—have been destroyed in New South Wales alone.
    — Jason Scott, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Large parts of Australia have suffered through several years of drought that has created tinder dry conditions, leaving bushland ready to ignite.
    — NBC News, 29 Dec. 2019
  • An Australian police helicopter caught a pair of uber-competitive kangaroos on camera duking it out in the middle of the night in the bushland.
    — David Caraccio, sacbee, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Eucalyptus trees, an Australian bushland staple, are also known to be especially flammable.
    — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Australia’s early leaders also set up large national parks near Sydney, protecting bushland for animals of all kinds.
    — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
  • For more walking, or picnicking, there’s Kings Park — larger than Central Park and filled with botanic gardens, bushland and trails.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2019
  • The luxurorious lodge is nestled in the Australian Zoo, where visitors can overlook the bushland and native wildlife.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The luxurorious lodge is nestled in the Australian Zoo, where visitors can overlook the bushland and native wildlife.
    — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • There were rumors that parts of this natural bushland, which depends on fire to propagate, might never fully regenerate, because the heat from the fires was so intense that the soil seed bank may have been destroyed.
    — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
  • Visitors flock to the farm to stroll boardwalks through native bushland and fields spangled with wildflowers, stopping at lookouts perched high above the Great Southern Ocean.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Most mature meadows are mowed at least once annually to prevent early succession shrubs and trees from taking hold and eventually altering the scene into a bushland, then forest.
    — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • Desmond Freeman fled into dense bushland in August last year after shooting and killing two police officers who came to search his rural home in Victoria state.
    — CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • While the wildfires started in the bushland, tinder-like vegetation dried from years of drought then incinerated under heavy winds, spreading blazes toward cities, across farmland and even into lush rainforests.
    — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
  • With few exceptions, the competition is hosted in a pristine white tent on a countryside estate (Australia’s is in a shed and South Africa’s looks out onto dry bushland).
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Police footage filmed with an infrared helicopter camera recently captured two kangaroos fighting in the bushland of Victoria, Australia.
    — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 5 May 2018
  • Even during dry seasons, the Amazon -- a humid rainforest -- doesn't catch fire easily, unlike the dry bushland in California or Australia.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 15 July 2021

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