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Example sentences from the Web for plainsBased on the hat he had created for himself, Stetson made a version called “The Boss of the Plains.” My Love Letter to the Stetson|Mark McKinnon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Plains, and Far West, secession sympathizers top out at 22 percent of the population. America’s Slumbering Secession Obsession|James Poulos|September 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST This is a big problem in states like Alaska, Montana, the Dakotas, and the plains states. Will US Health Care Follow in China’s Bloody Footsteps?|Daniela Drake|September 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST Take the case of the American bison: The ice-age bison evolved into the Plains buffalo, Bison bison, perhaps 10,000 years ago. American Wilderness Faces the Firing Squad|Doug Peacock|July 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Michael Waters explains, without serious evidence, that elk was “a rare animal in the plains at that time.” Incontrovertible Evidence Proves the First Americans Came From Asia|Doug Peacock|March 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Sit, with our hands crossed, singing hymns and thinking of our cari sposi in the Plains? Chronicles of Dustypore|Henry Stewart Cunningham At a distance of about two miles from our camp was the crest of a low swell in the Plains. Life and Adventures of 'Billy' Dixon|Billy Dixon In our village, we were as happy as a buffalo on the plains; but now we are more like the hungry and howling wolf in the prairie. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians|George Mogridge I found myself sighing once more for the freedom of the Plains. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)|Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody) The formation of the coast and plains is Tertiary and recent alluvium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 3|Various
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pl nmainly US extensive tracts of level or almost level treeless countryside; prairies Words nearby plainsplain Jane, plain knit, plain-laid, Plain People, plain rail, plains, plain sail, plain sailing, plain-saw, plains grasshopper, Plains Indian Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to plainsmeadow, expanse, field, prairie, steppe, grassland, plateau, flat, level, tundra, moor, champaign, moorland, heath, flatland |