Sample Sentences for
tundra
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    He was working in the oil fields of Canada, up on the tree line where the tundra started and the forests ended.  (source)
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    The most graceful were the tail feathers from a tundra swan.  (source)
    tundra = related to a treeless plain where the subsoil is always frozen
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    Santos posted her schedule each day, and by the second week, when she was meeting with a group of lobbyists wanting to drill in the Alaskan tundra, there were millions watching her.  (source)
    tundra = a treeless plain where the subsoil is always frozen
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    —as if my mother were some ancient peasant tribeswoman arriving from the tundra with an armful of raw yak meat and some buttons for bartering, trying to get something from Amy that wasn't on offer.  (source)
    tundra = a vast treeless plain in the northern arctic regions where the subsoil is always frozen
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    Virgin continents, raw wildernesses, fecund jungles, killing deserts, frozen tundras, and implacable mountains lay just beyond the city gates, and the human race was again going out where the street lights do not shine, out where there was no friendly cop on the corner nor indeed a corner, out where there were no well-hung, tender steaks, no boneless hams, no packaged, processed foods suitable for delicate minds and pampered bodies.†  (source)
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    Tundra swan and Canada geese literally surrounded them.†  (source)
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    Nine men out of ten would flee from a Royal Society soiree in extremity of boredom; but Creighton was the tenth, and at times his soul yearned for the crowded rooms in easy London where silver-haired, bald-headed gentlemen who know nothing of the Army move among spectroscopic experiments, the lesser plants of the frozen tundras, electric flight-measuring machines, and apparatus for slicing into fractional millimetres the left eye of the female mosquito.†  (source)
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    In the frozen tundra of her soul, a tiny, clear lake of meltwater appeared.†  (source)
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    The rest of the border is mainly lake, though in the far north it becomes tundra too cold and barren to fight over.†  (source)
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    Outdoorsmen pay thousands of dollars to experience the Alaska tundra, but for most of my childhood all I had to do was walk outside my door.†  (source)
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    Here's a perfect example: I owned a Toyota Tundra truck for a while, and I got tired of driving around with my headlights on all the time.†  (source)
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    North Bressia held desert, high tundra, and six major cities housing mostly burr-root harvesters and petroleum engineers.†  (source)
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    Despite warnings, even threats, from the Council, in the summer of 1908 my brothers and several hundred members of this renegade faction—a number of powerful ymbrynes among them, traitors every one—ventured into the Siberian tundra to conduct their hateful experiment.†  (source)
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The furry rodents rode atop a giant pile of stuff in the back of Allan's white Toyota Tundra for the four-hour drive from Phoenix to Magdalena.  (source)
Tundra = a model of Toyota truck
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