Example sentences for: prairies

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

  • 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.

  • The Stampede was originally conceived to show all the techniques and excitement of rounding up cattle on the prairies.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Monuments and museums show how the buffalo-hunting Métis, the descendants of Indians and French fur traders, struggled in vain against Anglo farmers from Ontario, themselves subsequently relayed by waves of Eastern European immigrants brought in to exploit the grain wealth of the prairies.


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