taigain a sentence
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The Canadian taiga is being attacked from all sides.
taiga = a cool forest of cone-bearing evergreen trees
- Unwilling to let McCandless go, I spent more than a year retracing the convoluted path that led to his death in the Alaska taiga, chasing down details of his peregrinations with an interest that bordered on obsession.† (source)
- But Shukhov had never forgotten the words of his first squad leader, Kuziomin--a hard-bitten prisoner who had already been in for twelve years by 1943--who told the newcomers, just in from the front, as they sat beside a fire in a desolate cutting in the forest: "Here, men, we live by the law of the taiga.† (source)
- Tell me about the time you met the Russian prime minister while hunting wild boar on the taiga.† (source)
- From early November until April the wolves and caribou travel together through the taiga, the sparse borderline forests of stunted spruce and jackpine lying below the timberline.† (source)
- -That forest, it's called the taiga, there's no end to it.† (source)
- By mid-May the sun was circling high in the heavens, flooding the taiga with light.† (source)
- The taiga, the camp, his eighteen months among the partisans, went right out of his head.† (source)
- This breach opened a way to the camp in the taiga, and through it poured a stream of new refugees.† (source)
- One was at the edge of the taiga, just outside the camp.† (source)
- The forest around it was a dense, impenetrable taiga.† (source)
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- He made his way farther into the taiga, to the marked tree, unearthed his things, and left the camp.† (source)
- But how do they get through the taiga, through the swamps?† (source)
- There was fighting on the western border of the taiga.† (source)
- It was easy to lose one's way in the taiga.† (source)
- That's just what the Whites want, a highway into the taiga!† (source)
- As the altimeter needle brushes five thousand feet, we crest a mud-colored ridge, the earth drops away, and a breathtaking sweep of taiga fills the Plexiglas windscreen.† (source)
- Every few minutes the insects' piercing whine is supplanted by the boom of distant thunder, rumbling over the taiga from a wall of thunderheads rearing darkly on the horizon.† (source)
- The idea of shifting camp had finally to be abandoned in favor of fortifying the present positions in the heart of the taiga.† (source)
- They were saved by its size, for the approaching winter made the taiga impenetrable and prevented the enemy from pulling his ring tighter.† (source)
- The enemy had closed the breach in his positions and the partisan unit that had broken through was now unable to get back into the taiga.† (source)
- That was why he was in such a temper as he stood talking to the trapper, Svirid, near the highway, which came close to the edge of the taiga at this point.† (source)
- But the taiga was so immense that the battles were like border warfare on the edges of a great kingdom, and the camp hidden in its heart was so full of people that however many went away to fight, there seemed always to be more people left.† (source)
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