How to Use steppe in a Sentence

steppe

noun
Definition of steppenext
Synonyms for steppenext
  • In the summer, the steppe gets hot, no matter the time of day.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • From the top of the rocks the steppe rolled to the horizon, a vast sheet striped with windblown snow.
    — Lucy Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The Black Sea gave way to the Caspian and, beyond, to a land of mountain, desert and steppe.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • When the Xiongnu empire collapsed around A.D. 100, chaos swept the steppe.
    — Andrew Curry, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • This front line stretches from the grassy steppes of the northeast, along the Dnieper River all the way to the Black Sea.
    — Lauren Tierney, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This is what the brotherhood of the steppe craved, and this is what the often captured.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
  • How still the steppe, turned up to April. Salutations, black earth.
    — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The full expanse of the steppe, streaked with islands of shadow, opened up around us.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Their real roots are on the battlefield, on the steppes, with the nomads.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
  • The trio will land at 12:56 a.m. Saturday on the Kazakhstan steppe.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The fish leave the green folds of the Klamath Mountains and enter high steppe plains of volcanic rock.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The tusk is believed to belong to a steppe mammoth from before the last ice age.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 15 July 2023
  • The flavor profile matches, and some bears do in fact live on steppes.
    — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Here on the central Asian steppe, the ancient home of Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde, the nomads are brought up tough.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
  • In the east, thousands of blind storytellers once wandered the Kharkiv steppe doing the same.
    — Linda Kinstler, Longreads, 27 June 2018
  • The Eurasian steppe is a vast curtain of grassland that stretches from Hungary to Manchuria.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Bereaved and exiled by traitors, the hero Guo Jing grows up on the Mongolian steppes.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The elephants on our planet right now can't tolerate the cold climate of the steppe.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • Russia forced the Kalmyk nation to flee across the Eurasian steppe, with over two-thirds of Kalmyks dying as a result.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Frankopan is at his most confident on the drier terrain of the Eurasian steppe, the setting of his last book.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • Sagebrush steppes are cracked by muddy coulees hiding pines where the spring snow lingers.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • That is why the Eurasian steppe is fringed to the south with barriers designed to forestall horsemen.
    — Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Diggers believe the mammoth bones found in the graveyard are those of steppe mammoths.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The way to understand Russia may be to take the Trans-Siberian Railway across the endless steppe.
    — Nicholas Kristof, National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The ecosystem makes a full sweep from alpine wetlands through grasslands and steppes to alpine meadows and snowy mountains and glaciers.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
  • The ecosystem makes a full sweep from alpine wetlands through grasslands and steppes to alpine meadows and snowy mountains and glaciers.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
  • Tens of thousands more cars wait snarled up at border posts along the Mongolian steppe.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Or the mineral-dull winter light of the shrub steppe, hunting chukars on rocky hillsides.
    — Thomas McIntyre, Field & Stream, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Putin refers to this region—a vast expanse of steppe and the coastline that the tsars wrested from the Ottoman sultans in the eighteenth century—by the name Novorossiya, or New Russia.
    — Brian Milakovsky, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Relics of trading centers in Central Asia trace the primitive optimizer to the steppes.
    — Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015

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