How to Use subarctic in a Sentence

subarctic

adjective
  • These birds are a subarctic species that spend most of their life at sea.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Now, hundreds of fires are burning through the subarctic taiga forests there for the second year in a row.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2021
  • This town, which is in a subarctic climate zone, sparkles with Christmas magic year-round.
    — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Majestic subarctic mountains, white snow, black basalt, and teal oceans with breaching whales.
    — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Resembling gulls to the untrained eye, northern fulmars are a subarctic species that spend most of their life at sea.
    — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The subarctic microorganisms revealed an array of colors from orange to yellow to pink to green.
    — Allison Gasparini, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Wildlife-lovers descend on the subarctic town of Churchill for a few weeks each autumn to tour the desolate landscape to look for polar bears.
    — Diane Bair and Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But that lack of activity in a subarctic winter made porcupines more intriguing to her.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • But that lack of activity in a subarctic winter made porcupines more intriguing to her.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Named after the moniker for subarctic conifer forests, the Taiga offers plenty of output and little range anxiety.
    — Bryan Campbell, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Indeed the flora of Mount Washington is more conducive to the alpine regions of the subarctic.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
  • The vaccine is transported in glass vials strong enough to withstand transit and the subarctic temperatures in which the liquid must be stored.
    — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The arctic and subarctic regions, for instance, contain a rich fauna and flora and those are in imminent danger.
    — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
  • Or, maybe those two were the same parent birds that fly to Costa Rica in the winter and return to this swampy subarctic valley each spring.
    — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 July 2017
  • This famous recluse once took a five-month trip around the world as well as a subarctic train expedition, both times traveling with just her camera for company.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The temperature of warmer permafrost in the low Arctic and subarctic has increased by less, in part because much of it is in the process of thawing.
    — Ben Weissenbach, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2021
  • In Alberta's subarctic boreal forests, thick with spruce and aspen, those fires are often massive.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • What’s more, the attributes coded in those genes likely helped sled dogs like Balto survive the extreme conditions of the subarctic.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • But the vaccine was packaged in 975-dose batches that must be kept at subarctic temperatures until used.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Get essential background on the geology of this subarctic island nation, and learn about the impact of climate change.
    — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
  • My parents, bewildered by Calgary’s subarctic winters and the labyrinthine task of finding jobs there, fought constantly.
    — Raksha Vasudevan, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • In cold, dry, subarctic air, a rocket taller than a house tilts northward, awaiting the moment when a person inside a nearby concrete building pushes a button.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Last summer our family had a reunion in Alaska, venturing from forest to mountains to sea and staying up late into the subarctic evenings.
    — Will Palmer, Outside Online, 28 June 2024
  • One of the glaring examples is up in Fairbanks, Alaska, categorized as a subarctic region for decades.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • Fish in the subarctic zone — such as Pacific cod — were deterred by the frigid temperatures of the cold pool, which hover just below 32 degrees.
    — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
  • In Fairbanks they are now categorized as warm summer continental climate, and no longer subarctic, as of this week’s data release.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • And that’s why this winter — one of the warmest on record for some parts of Canada — wasn’t exactly the best for a contest synonymous with subarctic temperatures.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • However, very few remain open in the winter, especially in subarctic conditions.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Because Updegrove has spent most of his life in subarctic Alaska, the polar conditions during his 56-mile run didn’t seem all that bad.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
  • There have always been bad things happening, and across the subarctic, some of the darkest countries in the world have December practices that date back far before Jesus’s birth.
    — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2021

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