extensive tracts of level or almost level treeless countryside; prairies
Examples of 'plains' in a sentence
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A fiery spirit burned through her throat and exploded in her stomach, leaving behind an aftertaste redolent of broad grassy plains.
Stewart, Michael COMPULSION
You could see the anger rising in them a long way off, like a tornado in the distance on the great plains of Kansas.
Various LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
Foley blushed at what she had had to tell him; a deep red insinuating itself brutally across the plains of his cheeks.
McCorquodale, Robin DANSVILLE
All related terms of 'plains'
plain
A plain object, surface, or fabric is entirely in one colour and has no pattern, design, or writing on it.
Great Plains
a vast region of North America east of the Rocky Mountains , extending from the lowlands of the Mackenzie River ( Canada ), south to the Big Bend of the Rio Grande
Plains Indian
a member of any of the Native American peoples formerly living in the Great Plains of the US and Canada
White Plains
city in SE N. Y ., near New York City: scene of a battle (1776) of the Revolutionary War: pop. 53,000
Plains of Abraham
a field in E Canada between Quebec City and the St Lawrence River: site of an important British victory (1759) in the Seven Years' War, which cost the French their possession of Canada
flood plain
A flood plain is a flat area on the edge of a river , where the ground consists of soil , sand , and rock left by the river when it floods.
walled plain
any of the largest of the lunar craters , having diameters between 50 and 300 kilometres