How to Use bushland in a Sentence

bushland

noun
Definition of bushlandnext
  • So from many places in the bushlands camp fires send up their smoke.
    — Longreads, 29 Aug. 2017
  • George Mwinnyaa grew up in the Upper West bushland of Ghana.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2017
  • This is true to form; Australians spend a lot of time not thinking about their bushland.
    — Time, 23 Jan. 2020
  • That’s my sense of home is those animals and the sounds and the feels of the bushland and those animals being in them.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Against the rising level of poverty, against the deforestation of the bushland and against the spread of the Sahara.
    — Alicia Prager, Quartz Africa, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Almost 4 million hectares of forest and bushland—an area almost twice the size of Wales—have been destroyed in New South Wales alone.
    — Jason Scott, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Nearly 18 million acres of land has been burned -- most of it bushland, forests and national parks, which are home to the country's native wildlife.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Over five years of study, the bushland wallabies produced offspring right on cue, six weeks post-solstice.
    — Babak Tafreshi, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Planters pay for all their own supplies: tent, shovel, sleeping bag, and travel to the remote bushlands where the camps are located.
    — Luc Forsyth, National Geographic, 8 June 2018
  • Max, a 17-year-old Blue Heeler from Queensland, Australia, is being praised after spending more than 15 hours in rugged bushland in the rain with a lost three-year-old girl.
    — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • In the footage, Doherty ran into the burning bushland from her car, immediately wrapping the koala in the shirt off her own back.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Investigators have scoured the area in the remote bushland.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The blazes have killed people and wiped out towns, but most of what is burning is bushland, eucalyptus forests and national park land, where the country’s unique wildlife resides.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 Jan. 2020
  • For more walking, or picnicking, there’s Kings Park — larger than Central Park and filled with botanic gardens, bushland and trails.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2019
  • On Sunday, helicopters loaded with boxes of sweet potatoes and carrots flew over bushland and canyons.
    — Fox News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Visitors flock to the farm to stroll boardwalks through native bushland and fields spangled with wildflowers, stopping at lookouts perched high above the Great Southern Ocean.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 16 Oct. 2019
  • An Australian police helicopter caught a pair of uber-competitive kangaroos on camera duking it out in the middle of the night in the bushland.
    — David Caraccio, sacbee, 18 Oct. 2017
  • With few exceptions, the competition is hosted in a pristine white tent on a countryside estate (Australia’s is in a shed and South Africa’s looks out onto dry bushland).
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • In the last few weeks, dozens of cases have been reported in remote towns across New South Wales—the state that includes Sydney, but also great expanses of sparsely populated bushland.
    — Amy Gunia, Time, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Set in scrub-throttled bushland thick with native banksias and grass trees, or yaminas, the camp was built in close consultation with the palawa, under the guidance of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania.
    — Nina Karnikowski, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Dec. 2022
  • There were rumors that parts of this natural bushland, which depends on fire to propagate, might never fully regenerate, because the heat from the fires was so intense that the soil seed bank may have been destroyed.
    — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
  • Large parts of Australia have suffered through several years of drought that has created tinder dry conditions, leaving bushland ready to ignite.
    — NBC News, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Before the non-venomous Diamond python could slither off with a jar of paprika and spook the other customers, handler Helaina Alati captured it with a snake bag and released it safely into nearby bushland.
    — Amy Wray, CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Even during dry seasons, the Amazon -- a humid rainforest -- doesn't catch fire easily, unlike the dry bushland in California or Australia.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 15 July 2021
  • While the wildfires started in the bushland, tinder-like vegetation dried from years of drought then incinerated under heavy winds, spreading blazes toward cities, across farmland and even into lush rainforests.
    — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
  • At the peak of its power, the group was a notoriously brutal outfit whose members for years eluded Ugandan forces in the bushland of northern Uganda, where the civil war forced hundreds of thousands into camps for the internally displaced.
    — Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Australia’s early leaders also set up large national parks near Sydney, protecting bushland for animals of all kinds.
    — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Eucalyptus trees, an Australian bushland staple, are also known to be especially flammable.
    — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The family believes the Tasmanian devil got into the house, which backs up onto undeveloped bushland, by following their puppy Gecko inside after the pet went outdoors for a bathroom break.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Starting in 1975, Mr. Kerzner oversaw its creation, hewn from raw bushlands and rising in a jumble of architectural whimsy in what was then the nominally independent homeland of Bophuthatswana.
    — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020

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