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How to use tundra in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Tundra means a flat and treeless Arctic biome. Example: “Tundra grass was impracticable.”

Examples of tundra by meaning

nounA flat and treeless Arctic biome.

  • Tundra grass was impracticable.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

nounA long stretch of something, such as time.

  • I go to research something online, but once out on the wild Web, lose my way—and vast tundras of time—wandering further away from whatever I was looking for with each click of the mouse.2009 December 22, Louisa Kamps, “The Distraction Diet”, in Elle
  • We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.2018 January 2, Sara Pascoe, “We should all pick achievable resolutions – get through three days of dry January and you’re a hero to me”...

More sentences with tundra

  • The nuplexes, virtually independent of fuel supplies, could be dropped into jungle or tundra.2009, Spencer R. Weart, Nuclear Fear: A History of Images, page 303. From the entry nuplex
  • With subsequent climate warming, Twites in Europe followed the tundra north and became isolated.2007, Simon Wood, The Birds of Essex, page 557. From the entry twite
  • Throughout much of northern Alaska, tundra is becoming brushier and giving way to forest.2004 summer, Bill Sherwonit, “Alaskan meltdown: On the frontlines of climate change”, in National Parks, Washington, D.C.: National Parks…. From the entry brushy
  • The earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi is also a typical superdominant of tundra cenoses.1997, F. E. Wielgolaski, Polar and Alpine Tundra - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 405. From the entry superdominant
  • The mountain tundras in western Verkhoyansk, are frequently fragmented; the alectorian tundras are usually continuous.1960, Problems of Botany - Volume 5, page 79. From the entry alectorian
  • And I have seen the frozen, giant-builded battlements of Uogam on the glacial tundras of the nightward hemisphere of Venus.2014, Clark Ashton Smith, S. T. Joshi, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, page 94. From the entry nightward
  • Erethizontids inhabit a broad variety of habitats, from tundra to the tropics and from dense forests to open settings.2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 212. From the entry erethizontid
  • As tundra diminishes, animals that depend on it for food or nesting habitat—caribou and many birds—are likely to lose out.2004 summer, Bill Sherwonit, “Alaskan meltdown: On the frontlines of climate change”, in National Parks, Washington, D.C.: National Parks…. From the entry brushy
  • The distribution of species across the tundra may be explained by the similar humidity regime across all sites (hyperhumidity).1998, Proceedings RMRS., Rocky Mountain Research Station, page 51. From the entry superfrost
  • High humidity of all types of tundra soil results from low evaporation and a high level of superfrost in tundra.1998, Proceedings RMRS., Rocky Mountain Research Station, page 51. From the entry superfrost
  • Least willow is found in alpine and arctic tundra in a variety of vegetation types from dry scree to cool, wet slopes.2010, Les Viereck, Alaska Trees and Shrubs, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry least willow
  • Like arctic foxes, siksiks forage in many areas of the tundra, but make their homes in places where the active layer is deep.2003, Cherie Winner, Life in the Tundra, Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry siksik
  • This phenomenon is fairly rare for wild deer of the Kola Peninsula, in contrast to some mountain and tundra populations where antlerlessness reaches 25-23%.1991, International Union of Game Biologists, Global trends in wildlife management, page 301. From the entry antlerlessness
  • Sections of lichen (mostly alectorian) tundra are predominant in both subzones; moss-covered and hummocky-cotton grass tundras (in the Lena river delta) are confined to the excessively moist areas.1971, Nikolaĭ Andreevich Gvozdet︠s︡kiĭ, N. I. Mikhaĭlov, Physical Geography of the USSR (Asiatic Part), page 229. From the entry alectorian

Meaning of tundra

  1. noun A flat and treeless Arctic biome.
  2. noun A long stretch of something, such as time.

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Questions about tundra in a sentence

How do you use tundra in a sentence?
Tundra is used as a noun. For example: “Tundra grass was impracticable.”
What is a short sentence with tundra?
“Tundra grass was impracticable.”
What does tundra mean?
Tundra means a flat and treeless Arctic biome.

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