How to Use steppe in a Sentence

steppe

noun
  • The steppe looks like a sinewy piece of yellow meat.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • In the summer, the steppe gets hot, no matter the time of day.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The steppe had taken them for itself.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Morning in the steppe is blinding, pink.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Night in the steppe is deafening.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The steppe went on and on, and any danger in it could be spotted from afar.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The steppe is sand pierced by grasses and little pale flowers.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Their lives intertwine with the steppe in ways that are deeply human.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The flavor profile matches, and some bears do in fact live on steppes.
    — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • For a long time there was nothing but steppe, and then a single hut appeared.
    — Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • From the top of the rocks the steppe rolled to the horizon, a vast sheet striped with windblown snow.
    — Lucy Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2021
  • There’s nothing in the steppe to catch your eye; there is only distance.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Sagebrush steppes are cracked by muddy coulees hiding pines where the spring snow lingers.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The full expanse of the steppe, streaked with islands of shadow, opened up around us.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In the steppe everything dies of boredom.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • Awe because the steppe is endless and keeps coming and coming at your eyes.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Yes, in the market, but not on the steppe, not at a sanatorium.
    — Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • This is what the brotherhood of the steppe craved, and this is what the often captured.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
  • Their real roots are on the battlefield, on the steppes, with the nomads.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
  • Mongolia’s vast steppes and nomadic heritage have long shaped the rhythms of life.
    — Munkhtuya Rentsenbat, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • My father had rolled down the windows in the cabin to breathe in the steppe, feel that solitude.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The entire expanse floods with light, because there’s nothing to block it in the steppe.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The elephants on our planet right now can't tolerate the cold climate of the steppe.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • The meeting was held in a squat building in the middle of the sagebrush-steppe landscape.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Diggers believe the mammoth bones found in the graveyard are those of steppe mammoths.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Tens of thousands more cars wait snarled up at border posts along the Mongolian steppe.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Or the mineral-dull winter light of the shrub steppe, hunting chukars on rocky hillsides.
    — Thomas McIntyre, Field & Stream, 20 Dec. 2020
  • In daytime, the rumbling of the steppe is subsumed by bright, relentless light.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • When a rope drops, hundreds of horses charge onto the vast, dusty steppes with a horizon that never seems to end.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2019

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