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• Upland sandpipers are also sometimes called upland plovers or Bartram's sandpipers.2010, Mary Elizabeth Salzmann, Albatross to Zebra Finch: Birds from A to Z, page 24. From the entry Bartram's sandpiper
• It has densely populated urban areas, steep uplands dotted with tiny aboriginal villages and everything in between.2010, Steven Crook, Taiwan: The Bradt Travel Guide (Bradt Travel Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 115. From the entry Xinbei
• Male upland geese are highly territorial and will battle it out with any intruders.2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 52. From the entry upland goose
• Mutankiang, the second city of Heilungkiang, is the industrial center of the East Manchurian uplands.1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map : A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A.…. From the entry Heilungkiang
• They travelled down to those same uplands, after being married unsacramentally at a Register Office.1932, Warwick Deeping, Old Wine and New. From the entry unsacramentally
• But in that upland pocket of plain in the frosty night they sounded most intimately near.1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle. From the entry rafale
• That just leaves the challenge of bridging the gap between today's rather gloomy situation and tomorrow's sunlit uplands.2023 August 9, Philip Haigh, “Get the product and price right to tempt back commuters”, in RAIL, number 989, page 54. From the entry sunlit uplands
• Buck Island's uplands forest cover also includes frangipani, turpentine, Jamaican caper, manjack, Ginger Thomas, and water mampoo trees.2002, U.S. Virgin Islands: A Guide to National Parklands in the United States Virgin Islands. From the entry manjack
• Filipino farmers usually handweed upland rice twice.1989, Tropical Pest Management, page 34. From the entry handweed
• The original centers of abundance of upland sandpipers were the shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains.1988 May 20, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry shortgrass
• Although holding mainly high upland territory in Burma, the Shan themselves live only in the valleys and in stretches of plain.1968, “SHAN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 344, column 2. From the entry shan
• Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation.1959, JCRR General Report, page 64. From the entry anticide
• Weeds are also very prevalent on dry upland grasslands, where such hay as is produced is necessarily thin and haulmy.1914, Journal of the Board of Agriculture, vol. XX.12. From the entry haulmy
• The point is that increasingly we'll have two choices: fight lead bans and lose, or learn what nontoxics work for upland birds.2008, Phil Bourjaily, “New Age Birdshot”, in Field & Stream, volume 113, number 2, page 26. From the entry nontoxic
• A Red soil (Ultisol, USDA classification) was sampled from the 11 to 40 cm layer of an upland in Wenquan, Hubei province, China.2005, Qiaoyun Huang, Wei Liang, Peng Cai, “Adsorption, desorption and activities of acid phosphatase on various colloidal particles from…. From the entry Wenquan
• Two-acre watersheds are constructed on three representative research sites, each characteristic of one main soil-vegetation complex found in saline upland and panspot ranges.1971, United States, “ARS”, in Agricultural Research, volume 41, number 176, Service, page 51. From the entry panspot
• To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry verdure
• Thence he passed to the huge and ferocious bird, the phororachus, and to the great elk which still roams upon this upland.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry phororachus
• An anarchy of small curls was her chevelure, a dark upland of misrule, every hair asserting its rights over a not discreditable brow.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry gallimaufry
• The current trend is for rewilding upland habitats to make them more nature-rich but 44% of the Cairngorms national park is dewilded because of a rich man's hobby.2021 August 5, Patrick Barkham, quoting Mark Avery, “Britain's national parks dominated by driven grouse moors, says study”, in Katharine…. From the entry dewild
• The relatively small upland moa had the most wide-ranging taste; its coprolites show that it consumed a diversity of mosses, ferns, and fungi, as well as aquatic plants.2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian. From the entry upland moa
• The presence of these foods show how the upland moa was able to co-exist with the much larger South Island giant moa, by feeding on relatively inaccessible plants.2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian. From the entry South Island giant moa
• Semi-arid cropping systems in India, and to a greater extent in Indo-China and east Indonesia, use dryland or upland rice when possible during the wet season.1995, C. J. Pearson, D. W. Norman, J. Dixon, Sustainable Dryland Cropping in Relation to Soil Productivity, Rome: Food and Agriculture…. From the entry dryland
• However, Leh's most important product is the soft underwool of sheep and goats, most of which are tended by nomads, men who roam about the uplands with their herds.1964, Lora Bryning Redford, Nathan Goldstein, Getting to know the northern Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, Assam, New York: Coward-McCann, page…. From the entry pashmina
• So might one disclose a tiny rill in the uplands of Thibet—and thousands of miles away the muddy yellow waters of the surging Whang Ho obliterate an inoffensive province.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry thibet
• Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and requisite farming implements, e. g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper etc.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 668. From the entry e.g.
• It was man of the New Stone Age who first peopled this upland, leaving remains of his hut-dwellings, his pounds, dolmens, and menhirs, his kistvaens and his cooking-holes.1913, Arthur L. Salmon, Dartmoor. From the entry kistvaen
• The standard form of most walls probably dates from Tudor times but the great era of wall-building in the uplands took place comparatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.2016, Angus J. L. Winchester, Dry Stone Walls: History and Heritage, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry dry-stone

Meaning of upland

1. noun The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation.
2. noun The country, as contrasted with the town.
3. adjective Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands.

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How do you use upland in a sentence?

Upland is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Upland sandpipers are also sometimes called upland plovers or Bartram's sandpipers.”

What is a short sentence with upland?

“Filipino farmers usually handweed upland rice twice.”

What does upland mean?

Upland means the area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation.