Words similar to prairies

Example sentences for: prairies

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

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.
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.
Driving east from Vancouver on the Trans-Canada Highway and following the Fraser River north to its tributary, the Thompson, you are backtracking along the great exploration route traced by intrepid fur traders from the prairies to the Pacific.
You can see the monuments right across the Prairies — huge cathedral-like grain elevators.
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.