Square jaws, roping dogies, and long shots of scrubland. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Outside the fence, the native scrubland was a burnt brown. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
It was barren pine scrubland, not useful for even good farming. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Sherwood Smith, March 23, 1999. Interview I-0079. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The teeth fragments, found in barren scrubland some 170 kilometres. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Closing the door, he made his way across the scrubland to the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighthouse]
It is a desolate moonscape of rugged hills and mountains and scrubland. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2001] Reference
Black-tailed jackrabbits inhabit the grassland and scrubland of the region. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Semi-Arid Highlands ecoregion (CEC)] Reference
They'll head out for another day combing the beaches and some of the scrubland here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2005] Reference
Cropland also absorbs less carbon than rain forests or even the scrubland it replaces. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World] Reference
Miranda must have walked quickly - scanning the scrubland he could see no sign of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighthouse]
Highway Patrol sirens were closing the gap; Kern County scrubland loomed all around him. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
Some of the workers caught begging at roadsides were chased back into the dry scrubland. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Growing up together in the vast scrubland of the Karoo desert tends to do that to people. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Bosch stood up and could see its spotlight sweeping over the scrubland, looking for them. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Ice]
At lower elevations where rainfall is less consistent, vegetation becomes semi-desert scrubland. From Wordnik.com. [Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets] Reference
Vittorio put his foot down and we drove on away from the town and out into an area of scrubland. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Finish]
The xeric scrubland of Paraguaná develops on flat lands, with landscape on hills and the piedmont. From Wordnik.com. [Paraguana xeric scrub] Reference
At higher altitudes (3,000-4,800 meters), grassland and scrubland systems reach up to the snow line. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes] Reference
You drive for miles across desert scrubland, to arrive at a fenced in area the size of a soccer field. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trinities] Reference
The flat scrubland was at his back now, flatly denying the town that crouched against its huge haunch. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
I was always pretty much of a loner; I spent a lot of time playing in the scrubland behind the orphanage. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Overgrazing of arid scrubland prairie has stripped this now unproductive land in the Middle Atlas of Morocco. From Wordnik.com. [Overgrazing] Reference
Uganda sloped sharply upward from the lake, heavily forested, unlike the brown scrubland along the Kenyan coast. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
Vegetation of the region includes rain forest, tall open forest, woodland, tall scrubland and steep rock pavements. From Wordnik.com. [Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia] Reference
Here and there the scrubland was dotted with trees, sturdy firs that could withstand the sudden shifts in the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Stay Through The Night]
It is a thorny scrubland up to 6 meters (m) high with palms and numerous succulent plants, primarily in the cactus group. From Wordnik.com. [Cuban cactus scrub] Reference
Aruba police and the FBI working around the clock, continue to scour beaches and scrubland for 18-year-old Natalee Holloway. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2005] Reference
Ostriches are set to go sky-high, farmers scratching a living on scrubland farms in the harsh semi-desert Karoo region of Cape. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Five were killed on Monday "following a vast operation launched the previous week by security forces" in the scrubland of Khemis. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Their headlights were bright now, already throwing shadows over the scrubland and silvering the telephone wires along the track. From Wordnik.com. [The Sinkiang Executive]
Piloo Salvadora oleoides and S. persica also occur scrubland and are virtually the only woody plants found in areas of saline soil. From Wordnik.com. [Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India] Reference
Visitors arrive along a series of country roads and a dusty trail that leads through a scrubland scented with wild thyme and lavender. From Wordnik.com. [Portugal's Alluring Hideaways] Reference
It snaked through the hills in lazy bends and sharp corners, passing small ravines and twisted trees set low in the natural scrubland. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
The trail blazed through the mountain scrubland was clear enough: two sets of human prints and the twisted claw marks of the half-ore. From Wordnik.com. [Song of Time]
It smashed through a gate in the wall that surrounded the compound and began moving across the scrubland in a southeasterly direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Ice]
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