chaparralin a sentence
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To minimize fire danger, they recommend prescribed burns of chaparral.
chaparral = dense vegetation typically consisting of bushes found in dry climates
- It was a relief, after the constant battle with the mesquite and chaparral. (source)
- The track of flattened chaparral was still visible bending away over the floor of the desert.† (source)
- Eventually, Bob stepped through the chaparral with Shady, his faithful wolf-malamute, and we lit the propane light again.† (source)
- I see Chaparral Court.† (source)
- Ahead lay a flat and endless valley of dry sagebrush and chaparral; the no-man's-land between the river and the outskirts of the border city of McAllen.† (source)
- The strike hit when the chaparral of the L.A. valley was ready to burn anyway.† (source)
- Like cottontail rabbits and chaparral birds and a baby possum that sulked and lay like dead for the first several hours until he finally decided that Arliss wasn't going to hurt him.† (source)
- Small birds were beginning to call from the chaparral.† (source)
- He was watching the two pigs, who were rooting around a chaparral bush.† (source)
- If the moon was high enough to cast a shadow, he sheltered beside a clump of chaparral.† (source)
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- "That's all right, Jake," Augustus said, flinging the dregs of his coffee into a chaparral bush.† (source)
- The only landmarks were shadows, low shadows, mostly made by chaparral and mesquite.† (source)
- They watched him walk off into the chaparral, the rope in his hand.† (source)
- Just as he ducked, Mouse leaped a sizable chaparral bush.† (source)
- Colorful as they were, quilts weren't the best material for riding through mesquite and chaparral.† (source)
- Pea pointed at the house, fifty yards away, in the chaparral.† (source)
- They pulled the wet saddles off the horses and hobbled them and walked off in separate directions through the chaparral to stand spraddlelegged clutching their knees and vomiting.† (source)
- They saw no lights, heard no sounds—they just rode, across shallow gullies, through thinning chaparral, farther and farther from the river.† (source)
- Something moved in his line of vision, and for a moment he thought he saw some strange brown animal under a chaparral bush.† (source)
- Lonesome Dove was hidden—he could barely see the top of the little church house across the chaparral flats.† (source)
- There were lots of low bushes, mostly chaparral, between him and the hut, and there could be a bandit with a bowie knife behind any one of them.† (source)
- He had grown up with the sun shining, with mesquite and chaparral, armadillos and coyotes, Mexicans and the shallow Rio Grande.† (source)
- The new bunch had simply cut around the chaparral thicket from the north and collided with the first herd.† (source)
- Mouse, a good cow horse, twisted and jumped a medium-sized chaparral bush in an effort to gain a step on the cows.† (source)
- He saw what looked like half the herd charging right at him from the rear; some of the horses nearest him veered and went crashing into the chaparral.† (source)
- She got tired of looking out the window all day and seeing nothing but brown land and gray chaparral.† (source)
- They were moving through fairly open country, flats of chaparral with only here and there a strand of mesquite.† (source)
- He's out there sitting behind a chaparral bush congratulating himself on not having to listen to Bol brag on his wife.† (source)
- Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds.† (source)
- Even when the sun rose above the low bluffs to the south, a layer of light lingered for a bit at the level of the chaparral, as if independent of its source.† (source)
- They were on the long chaparral plain not far south of the river and were easing the horses around a particularly dense thicket of chaparral, prickly pear and low mesquite when it happened.† (source)
- But when he trotted through the chaparral toward the Hat Creek barn, he saw that it was old Bolivar himself, beating the same bell with the same piece of crowbar.† (source)
- Pea Eye, who had a jumpy disposition, was always shying from shadows, and he had even blazed away at innocent chaparral bushes on occasion, mistaking them for bandits.† (source)
- It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the process happily, knowing it would only last a few minutes.† (source)
- The little clouds of sand seemed like live things, slipping around the mesquite and by the chaparral as a running wolf might, sliding under the bellies of the cattle and then rising a little, to blow over their backs.† (source)
- Half an hour of riding brought him to the dense chaparral and willow thickets.† (source)
- The crashing of wild animals into the chaparral, and the scarcely frightened flight of rabbits and grouse attested to the wildness of the place.† (source)
- Twice he came to a wide bottom-land green with willow and cottonwood and thick as chaparral, somewhere through the middle of which ran a river he decided must be the lower Nueces.† (source)
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