How to Use taiga in a Sentence

taiga

noun
  • Life here revolves around the northern forest, known as the taiga.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • With its short flora, the taiga is kind to those intent on spotting movements of game.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The north-taiga forests are essential for the reproduction of many bird species.
    — Alex Treadway, National Geographic, 14 June 2017
  • The taiga’s pulse of winter freeze and summer thaw grinds rock into dust, as do the rasp-tongues of glaciers high in some mountains.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 May 2024
  • Most of the taiga in Alaska is left unmolested, at least in the summer months.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
  • Several women, with heavy coats, heads covered in hats and scarves, stand at the edge of a forest, or maybe the taiga.
    — By Anne Tschida, miamiherald, 24 July 2017
  • The taiga forest trailed the ice, and then the deciduous trees moved in during this age of climate change.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • In this region, at the heart of the taiga, lies the village of Shologon, soon to be coated by a thick cloud of smoke.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In 1949, she, her mother and her invalid brother were stripped of their beloved farm and sent into the taiga.
    — David Bezmozgis, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
  • By that date, the smoke had already spent days traveling thousands of miles — all the way from Siberia, where large swaths of the taiga were ablaze.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2018
  • To find out, researchers trudged through the Alaskan taiga, seeking out wildfire sites where spruce once dominated.
    — Joel Goldberg, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Embedded with us will be a true man of the Russian taiga, wearing camouflage and bearing a rifle and machete.
    — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2022
  • Embedded with us will be a true man of the Russian taiga, wearing camouflage and bearing a rifle and machete.
    — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • The taiga is a belt of coniferous forest around the planet at between 50 and 60 degrees north of the equator.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The company’s pollution has carved a barren landscape of dead and dying trees out of the taiga, or boreal forest, one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
    — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • There’ll be rainforest, swamp, seasonal forest, forest, savanna, woods, taiga, desert, grassy desert and tundra.
    — Duncan Geere, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2010
  • The park encompasses six million acres of subarctic taiga and tundra and is populated by an astounding range of wildlife.
    — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • And in the remote, seemingly endless wilderness of the taiga, some people simply want visitors to relay a message to the outside world.
    — Time, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Acting as the planet's lungs, the taiga — along with the Brazilian Amazon — soak up carbon dioxide and generate the air humans breathe.
    — NBC News, 15 July 2021
  • The long-legged, large-antlered member of the deer family is found in the tundra, taiga and boreal forest ecosystems from Alaska to Labrador.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Thanks to a robust energy industry and modern HVAC systems, there are bustling cities all the way from arid deserts to the frigid taiga.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Vast sub-Arctic forests The boreal or taiga ecosystem, a swath of northern forest that covers 17% of the globe’s land area, is adapted to fire.
    — Nancy Fresco, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The foal was discovered in the Batagaika crater, a huge 328-foot deep depression in the East Siberian taiga.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
  • At the time the play was written, the Russian aristocracy was in twilight, the serfs had been emancipated, swaths of the taiga were being deforested.
    — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Workers building the new Vostochny spaceport in the country's remote far-eastern taiga were given just two days to mark the coming of 2016.
    — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2016
  • By September, aspen and balsam poplar trees at the entrance are a brilliant yellow, and scrub vegetation (also known as the taiga) turns rust colored, making for an impressive vista.
    — Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In the great taiga, Russia’s vast subarctic forest, and now in Ukraine, the stories of shatooni rising from apparent death to devour their executioners are not myth.
    — A. Craig Copetas, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The drying of soils and vegetation that followed contributed to wildfires that burned millions of acres of taiga, or boreal forest, particularly across Siberia.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Lehtolainen escorts readers through the socially and economically frayed underbelly of Helsinki, to Baltic islands sparkling in long Nordic summer evenings, to dense snowy northern Finnish taiga.
    — Beaverton City Library, OregonLive.com, 14 July 2017
  • His past excursions, typically in the Siberian taiga, have showcased him engaged in a wide variety of activities, from shirtless horseback riding to shirtless fishing, shirtless hunting, and snorkeling (not shirtless).
    — Johnny Simon, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2019

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