How to Use tundra in a Sentence

tundra

noun
  • Sandy beach meets frozen tundra.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The plain is marked by hills, rivers and small lakes and tundra.
    — Bybecky Bohrer, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The plain is marked by hills, rivers, and small lakes and tundra.
    — Becky Bohrer and Matthew Daly, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Brown and black bears, moose and wolves, roam tundra and black spruce forests.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t get left out in the lurch when the weather turns tundra.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Don’t get left out in the lurch when the weather turns tundra.
    — Katey Psencik, Austin American Statesman, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In the winter, the scene turns to tundra and the lake freezes over.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 May 2024
  • The houses in Chevak spring from an open sweep of tundra and lakes.
    — Lois Parshley, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • On the horizon, islands trapped in ice rose out of the snowy tundra.
    — Zoe Baillargeon, Outside Online, 29 July 2020
  • Despite their size, these creatures are a force on the tundra.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • From the sky, the tundra and frozen arctic look like smooth snowpack.
    — Aaron Turpen, New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
  • And even though the tundra may be quite cold, there are heaters in the vehicle.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • During summer, their gray and brown fur blends in with tundra rocks and plant life.
    — Jacob Job, The Conversation, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Over time, however, more shrubs across tundra can make the ground even warmer.
    — Randi Jandt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Around the mountain camera there aren’t any trees, just alpine tundra.
    — Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • On the southern edge of town, where the road meets the open tundra, there is a cemetery.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Wrangel Island is a dry, cold place that's home to tundra plants and a few shrubs.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2018
  • With their large feet, wolverines can pad their way across the snowy tundra as if on snowshoes.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Banas has mapped out a 240-mile route through the frozen tundra.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The world should be cold and dead like the tundra, after all, a barren rock hurtling through space.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Think The Revenant but with wide open ocean instead of an icy tundra.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
  • And yet, the tundra seems to be slowly reclaiming most of it.
    — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
  • To the north, moose, caribou, and black bears pick their way through spruce-fir forest and mossy tundra.
    — Outside Online, 25 July 2022
  • With that being said, there's still plenty of time to enjoy the frozen tundra.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The white tundra sparkled, reflecting the purples and blues of the sky.
    — Rachel Louise Snyder, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The question is how will that knee react on the second night of the back to back in the tundra?
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The grizzly ambled along, pausing to scrape the tundra for roots.
    — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
  • For the most part, only moss, lichen and shallow-rooted shrubs can grow in the tundra.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The site is on a south-facing slope on a knoll next to tundra and lakes that drain into a river.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2018
  • The concrete forest gives way to frozen tundra, gives way to rivers and islands and even more city.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 27 Feb. 2020

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