Example sentences for: prairies

How can you use “prairies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The company kept upper Canadian farmers from migrating to the Prairies by depicting a sub-Arctic wasteland, but British surveyors found the valleys of the Saskatchewan, Assiniboine, and Red rivers to be fertile and ideal for agriculture.

  • For these great hunters of the Rocky Mountain foothills and prairies, wild game included grizzly and black bear, antelope, deer, elk, wild sheep, and goats, but the only “real meat” was buffalo.

  • Two suggested plans of attack are either to start in Toronto or Montréal and take in Ontario and Québec, with side trips to the Atlantic coast or even out to the West; or to start in Vancouver or Calgary and explore the Rockies and British Columbia before heading east to Ontario or Québec, taking in the Prairies on a cross-country train ride.

  • As a noun, swale rolls off the tongues of countrymen frequently enough, and means a `tract of wet ground,' as in the geological term describing rolling prairies that have swells and swales.

  • Against all the experts’ advice, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s general manager, William Cornelius Van Horne, built tracks around Lake Superior and west across the Prairies to meet Andrew Onderdonk’s Chinese laborers working their way east through Kicking Horse Pass in the Rockies.


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