Sample Sentences forsteppe (auto-selected)
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Although thought of as treeless, a steppe may have trees near rivers and lakes.steppe = extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
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Ring, ring, ring my little bell, in the steppe, ring, ring, ring.† (source)
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With hearty applause from every corner, the lad's proposal seemed to be barreling toward adoption as quickly and dependably as one of the Union's locomotives barrels across the steppe.† (source)
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led canyons and steppes of flame forest that are roughed in on the orbital survey map I carry.† (source)
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Somewhere in the recumbent solitudes, the motionless but teeming millions of books, lost in two dozen turns right, three dozen turns left, down aisles, through doors, toward dead ends, locked doors, half-empty shelves, somewhere in the literary soot of Dickens's London, or Dostoevsky's Moscow or the steppes beyond, somewhere in the vellumed dust of atlas or Geographic, sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.† (source)
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We can bike through the Mongolian steppe.† (source)
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I command the greatest army that has ever marched on the frozen steppes of this forsaken land!† (source)
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The steppe was barren and windswept, with a dry wind in the summer and a freezing one in winter.† (source)
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I admired the immense, steppelike expanse of the lady's wool-dad bosom as she retreated a few inches from my eye, down the creaking wooden stair, a sort of Siberian bitterness on her vivid lips.† (source)
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He gave him a pair of gloves lined with rabbit fur, a hat worthy of the steppes, and an overcoat with a plush collar, tried and proven in the icy winters of Bavaria.† (source)
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We find him outside, standing by the taxi and looking through factory smoke at the low mountains that run across the steppe.† (source)
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Of those that do reach the earth's surface, two-thirds, I suppose, nip into the sea, and the other third sinks into forests or skids across savannahs and steppes.† (source)
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He could not, any more than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has once recognized it to be a tuft of grass.† (source)
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So straight on through the night, flat out through quarter-moon dark as in the steppes of the far Dakotas, wolf country, and the road was smooth and fast.† (source)
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Why is the steppe barren?† (source)
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THE desert was neither flat nor monotonous; nor was it like so many other deserts — the Gobi, the Steppes, or certain parts of the Sahara — featureless and devoid of colour.† (source)
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