How to Use shrubland in a Sentence

shrubland

noun
  • At the time the creature lived, the area was largely dry shrubland with some trees.
    — Malcolm Ritter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The team of scientists found the frog at night, sitting in shrubland by a river.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
  • How this shrubland bounces back from the fire will likely impact mountain lions’ survival.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The Caatinga is a stark, dry shrubland in northeastern Brazil.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Soft boundaries linked prairie, savanna, shrubland, forest and marsh.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Mesquite shrublands flank the highways, and saplings grow out of sidewalks, their sage, fern-like leaves softening the landscape.
    — Von Diaz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Evidence suggests heavy winds downed power lines in the area, sending sparks into the dry shrubland.
    — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The striped reptiles live along dry creek beds in the shrublands and grasslands of southeastern Colorado.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In contrast, 64 percent of such houses were destroyed by grassland or shrubland fires.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Keep in mind that disease-carrying ticks can inhabit coastal shrubland near beaches, not just dense forests, Lane said.
    — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2022
  • This includes savannahs and shrublands.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • Dusty shrublands run into sleepy residential streets, which run into neat fields of cotton and alfalfa.
    — Maanvi Singh, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The largest part of the fire, however, was burning through woods and chaparral—shrubland—in the mountains, largely out of sight of the public.
    — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In the photoseries, the drum majorettes are a dynamic jolt of color in muted landscapes of concrete and shrubland.
    — CNN, 27 July 2021
  • Above ground, the plots shifted over that time from predominantly grassland to more desertlike shrublands.
    — Aimee Classen, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2026
  • When fires spark, the uninterrupted line of dry vegetation acts like a wick, carrying the flames into the shrublands.
    — Hannah Singleton, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Long-nosed bandicoots make their homes in forests, shrublands, grasslands, and terrestrial environments.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The Summit District at this national park includes the volcanic crater wilderness as well as the shrubland on the mountain’s slants.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • People are increasingly building closer to the wilderness, blurring the line between suburbs and shrubland.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 2 Aug. 2018
  • A lot of this remarkable biodiversity comes from Cape Town’s unique fynbos shrubland ecosystem, which requires fires to thrive.
    — Eric Margolis, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • One study found that in grasslands, shrublands and cropland worldwide where forests were created, streams shrank by 52% and 13% of all streams dried up completely for at least a year.
    — Caroline Lehmann, Quartz Africa, 28 July 2019
  • From the shrublands to the subalpine forests, fire—an integral part of any healthy landscape—is now acting as an adaptation catalyst that’s rapidly reshaping entire ecosystems.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 5 June 2019
  • In the fall, many California fires occur in coastal shrublands and are driven by extreme wind events, such as the Santa Ana and Diablo winds.
    — Jordan Evans, Cnn and Brandon Miller, CNN, 16 July 2019
  • In the dry shrubland around the shores of the ancient lake where MRD lived and died, nearly everything edible would also have been tough enough to make chewing serious work.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Instead, Greenville will be a hotter, drier, harsher place — one where the canopy of evergreens that once shaded its quaint downtown may never regrow, replaced instead by highly flammable shrubland.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • By some estimates, the state has gone from just 20 percent forested at its agricultural peak to 80 percent forested (or at least semi-developed woods and shrubland).
    — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Only a few hundred remain, surviving in the low growing, Afro-alpine shrubland of the National Park which supports their largest population.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In Southern California, for example, much of the wildland fuel is chaparral, a type of shrubland with dense, rocky soil and highly flammable plants in a Mediterranean climate.
    — John W. Daily, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
  • According to the federal agency’s species status assessment, climate change could also affect vegetative patterns in the state, leading more of the rat’s grassland habitat to become shrublands.
    — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Since 1982, researchers at this arid, semi-arid site have studied dramatic changes in vegetation, as perennial grasslands give way to shrubland in a process known as desertification.
    — Discover Magazine, 2 June 2017

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