How to Use savanna in a Sentence

savanna

noun
  • Past the many men on the side of the road selling hay savanna.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This stretch travels through black oak savanna, with lupine and burly oaks.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Africa’s dense rain forests turned into savannas and deserts.
    — Paul Manger, Quartz Africa, 28 June 2019
  • Oak savanna is now one of the rarest ecosystems on our planet.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Rain forests gave way to woodlands, and as the landscape opened up, the savanna emerged.
    — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • The city was built in a barren savanna, springing up from nothing in just a few years.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • They are found in forests, savannas and wetlands of West Africa.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • These creatures roam the open savanna together in search of prey.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • After a bit of wandering, the group moved toward a gate on the edge of the savanna.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Park visitors now may see Ranger and his mother on the savanna.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The dark, dense, damp tropical rainforest will give way to a more open savanna.
    — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
  • By that point, much of the biome would transform from a forest to a drier and more degraded savanna biome.
    — Carlos Nobre, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • That seems straightforward enough for a prey animal trying to live through the night in the savanna.
    — Jessica Wapner, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The airport also has agreed to build a trail through the savanna, which the forest preserve had been planning.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The once-damp rainforest canopy could shift to a dry savanna for at least several centuries.
    — Alexandra A Phillips, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Halfway around the world in central Africa, vast stretches of savanna are going up in flame.
    — Kendra Pierre-Louis, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The bird makes its home in grasslands and woodlands, as well as open savannas as long as there are nearby trees to roost in and build nests for its young.
    — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The path passes wetlands and savannas before reaching the lake.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The African savanna elephant is the largest land animal.
    — Nicholas Komu, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Four days had passed since the last pipeline bombing, and a lake of glistening crude stagnated in the savanna.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • That's the weight of more than four large African savanna elephants, or more than three times the weight of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
    — James Doubek, NPR, 14 May 2026
  • The video shows guides tracking down an African savanna elephant for LaPierre, who then shoots and wounds it.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • For more than 3,000 years, the tri-state area was dominated by oak savannas.
    — USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
  • The Cape buffalo guard the savanna, while the impalas and waterbucks graze among the trees.
    — Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Melanistic leopards living in the open savannas of Africa, where the cats hunt both night and day, are extremely rare.
    — National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Controlled burns will be carried out every 2 to 5 years to maintain the oak savanna habitat.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The African lion, Panthera leo, plays a crucial role in the savanna ecosystem.
    — Christopher Bendana, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2018
  • This region is more densely populated by Neptune-like worlds than both the desert and the savanna.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The human stress response is a brilliant piece of engineering for acute threats, like a lion circling on the savanna.
    — Big Think, 1 May 2026
  • The Cerrado is a high savanna, with dry forests and shrub lands, and occupies a quarter of Brazil’s land area.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019

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