How to Use scrubland in a Sentence

scrubland

noun
  • Pros will play it as a par 4 – with sandy scrubland to the right and thick rough to the left.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Brigades searched mile after mile of barren scrubland for signs of him.
    — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Plains are open areas that are mostly treeless and studded with scrubland and shrub.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Head south on State Route 83 amid cactus and mesquite scrubland.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Camel caravans on the Silk Road once passed through this flat, dusty scrubland.
    — Shilo Urban, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
  • Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
  • This is an almost treeless, desert-like area of scrubland that stretches over a vast part of the continent.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Such projects can and often are placed on old landfill properties, but these still cost more than farmland or scrubland.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Its dilemma seems to be that it is abandoned, alone, and unsure of how to exist in a vast, empty scrubland, which sits at the edge of a void.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Such marks the southerly edge of Dragonland, 260 acres of scrubland heath.
    — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Al-Hol was created decades ago, in a stretch of scrubland about ten miles west of the Iraqi border, as a haven for refugees.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Off the motorways, dirt roads in the scrubland provide a web of smuggling routes ideal for traffickers.
    — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Such projects can and often are placed on old landfill properties, but these are still more expensive than farmland or scrubland.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The SUVs file into a gravel parking area that was scratched out of the scrubland.
    — Tim Neville, Outside Online, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The structures within town are located in chaparral scrubland that had not burned in at least 40 years.
    — Kalee Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2013
  • The intern, Fauzia Bhutto, 26, turned up dead on remote scrubland.
    — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The multiple wildfires that have ravaged the state, have destroyed tens of thousands of acres of trees and scrubland, as well as people's homes.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • They are typically found in more arid scrublands or coconut plantations, the zoo said, and feast on grass, flowers, berries and fruit.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The medium-sized bats primarily live in arid grasslands, desert scrublands, and dry tropical forests.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 June 2026
  • There’s so little traffic that the surrounding scrubland is beginning to reclaim some of the parking lots.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
  • Nearer the Mediterranean shore, the scrubland becomes rockier and the land flattens out.
    — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
  • The bumpy country road wound deeper into the scrubland until at last an undulating shape appeared in the distance.
    — Sam Howe Verhovek, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
  • The waters eventually receded, but somehow the pupfish found a refuge in the vast expanse of scrubland and sand.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • That’s because Slab City has more than its share of people who think this patch of scrubland is impervious to disease.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2021
  • The scrublands of Castro Valley and Fremont glowed bright orange.
    — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
  • The camp consists of hundreds of tents clustered together on a spit of sidewalk and a stretch of scrubland along the Rio Grande.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Wildfires are getting bigger and more intense, and after a fire, the land may never return to forest, but convert to scrublands.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • From the scrubland opposite him, a group of wiry young fighters in tattered fatigues gathered, cradling Kalashnikovs.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Consider the case of Mohamed Abdi Madar, a camel herder who roams the scrubland west of Hargeisa.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2017
  • The venomous but docile tarantula is native to Mexican deserts and scrublands, and is named after its red-orange leg joints.
    — Amy Rankin, National Geographic, 16 May 2018

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