How to use steppe in a sentence
20 example sentences · noun
Steppe means the grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Example: “Grasslands: The Steppe biome is a dry, cold, grassland that is found in all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica.”
Examples of steppe by meaning
nounA vast, cold, dry, grassy plain.
- Grasslands: The Steppe biome is a dry, cold, grassland that is found in all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica.2000, Mary Elizabeth v. N., “Steppe”, in Blue Planet Biomes, West Tisbury Elementary School
More sentences with steppe
- One of the most unstudied types of vegetation in Ukraine is desertified steppe.2018, Дени́с Сергі́йович Виноку́ров [Denys Serhiyovych Vynokurov], Іва́н Іва́нович Мойсієнко [Ivan Ivanovych Moysiyenko], “Extrazonal…. From the entry Prysyvashshia
- Scientists believe the Higgs bison were offspring of steppe bison and aurochs, an extinct breed of cattle.2016 October 19, Robby Berman, “Scientists Identify the Elusive Higgs Bison”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2022. From the entry Higgs bison
- It was a large and complicated structure built out in the steppe.2004 December 17, Evgenii D. Moniushko, From Leningrad to Hungary: Notes of a Red Army Soldier, 1941-1946, Routledge, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry dryer
- Those who seek to invade another country anywhere across the great Eurasian steppes are condemned eventually to winter in it.2022 December 27, “Ukraine war: Five ways conflict could go in 2023”, in BBC News. From the entry winter
- Observing Lake Yaniugol, rising high in the steppe, he writes: “It settled like a sacred host of jade upon the sand.2021 December 3, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Sylvain Tesson, “Books That Satisfy Your Yearning for Far-Off Places”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Kunlun
- Eurasia is far larger than North America, and it was always home to the largest section of the mammoth steppe.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 207. From the entry mammoth steppe
- Evidence of shamanism can be seen among the steppes and pastures, where stone figures, called balbals, are scattered.2006, David C. King, “Religion”, in Kyrgyzstan (Cultures of the World), Tarrytown, New York, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, →ISBN…. From the entry balbal
- Fifty years ago, Golmud was open steppe with nomad herders.2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17. From the entry Golmud
- Joffrey and Eydoux both remarked that the horses were of the small steppe type known as Przhevalskii’s horses.1962, Soviet Anthropology and Archeology: Selected Articles from Soviet Journals in English Translation, New York, N.Y.: International…. From the entry Przhevalskii's horse
- Putorius eversmanni michnoi Kastsch, Transbaikalian steppe fitch.1936, Journal of Mammalogy, volumes 17-18, page 327. From the entry fitch
- The PLA2s were purified from the venoms of the banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus), the steppe viper (Vipera renardi) and the Nikolsky’s viper (Vipera nikolskii).2022 June 10, Oliveira, A.L., Viegas, M.F., da Silva, S.L. et al., “The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential”, in Nature…. From the entry Nikolsky's viper
- The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia.1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, in News Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page B-7, column 3. From the entry ornamental
- When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth.1960, Lesley Blanch, The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, published 2006, →ISBN, page…. From the entry troika
- There the high treeless steppe of short grass surrounds arid depressions or salt-pans with the usual carpet of low, fleshy salt-bushes and heaths of tamarixes.1913, Marcel E. Hardy, An Introduction to Plant Geography (Oxford geographies), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177. From the entry tamarix
- They blast their sand westwards across the steppe, coating the foothills of the Brooks Range in an icing-sugar dust of the loose, windblown sand-silt mixture known as loess.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 3. From the entry loess
- Beneath the wide steppe sky women in white kerchiefs were digging trenches and building small pillboxes, looking up now and again in case 'those vermin' were on the wing.2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 226. From the entry pillbox
- Shamanism, for example, is far from having disappeared among Turkish populations from the steppes of Turkestan to the Anatolian plateau, and one might speak of a “Sufized shamanism.2010, Eric Geoffroy, Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path of Islam, page 21. From the entry Sufize
- The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 197. From the entry taiga
- A broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figurines.2007, David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, Princeton: Princeton University Press, page 498. From the entry scatter
Meaning of steppe
- noun The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia.
- noun A vast, cold, dry, grassy plain.
Questions about steppe in a sentence
- How do you use steppe in a sentence?
- Steppe is used as a noun. For example: “Grasslands: The Steppe biome is a dry, cold, grassland that is found in all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica.”
- What is a short sentence with steppe?
- “Putorius eversmanni michnoi Kastsch, Transbaikalian steppe fitch.”
- What does steppe mean?
- Steppe means the grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia.
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