Steppes

Word STEPPES
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Definitions and meanings of "Steppes"

What do we mean by steppes?

The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (North American) prairie and (African) savanna.

A vast cold, dry grass-plain.

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The word "steppes" in example sentences

Present status of birds in steppes and savannas of Northern and Central Argentina. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This flat, bare, dry plain, is called the steppes of Tartary. ❋ Favell Lee Mortimer (1840)

Their ecosystems include semi-natural pastures, such as steppes, dehesas (grasslands with scattered oaks, typical of Portugal and Spain) and mountain pastures. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Most of the region where the buffaloes range consists of high upland prairies, such as in Asia are called "steppes," and in Mexico and South ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

"steppes," cold and dry -- there were men inhabiting the caverns on both sides of the Pyrenees. ❋ Unknown (1888)

One wouldn't think that moving from 87th to 82nd Street, albeit also from Madison to Lexington, would be the equivalent of relocating to the Mongolian steppes. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

It's close proximity to western most Shem meant that Argossians, Ophirians, Stygians and the occasional Turanian or Hyrkranian traveling afar from their steppes could be found there. ❋ Reis O'Brien (2009)

Every summer Naadam sweeps the steppes of Mongolia. since ancient times the "three manly sports" of wrestling, archery and horseback riding featured in the annual festival have defined the essence of nomadic life. ❋ Ron Gluckman (2010)

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft in the steppes of southern Kazakhstan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was a risky move to enter the plains where the enemy felt so at home, but Craterus and his men overtook the raiders and killed more than a thousand of the Scythians, though Spitamenes once again disappeared into the steppes. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Two decades ago, the species was officially extinct outside of captivity—the last wild takhi was seen wandering the Mongolian steppes back in 1969—though a few lived in zoos in Europe. ❋ Kit Gillet (2011)

The posse of men who accompany a killer on a long night through the desolate Anatolian steppes are on a pilgrimage to dig up the body of his victim. ❋ Steve Dollar (2012)

Will they look more like the deforested, erosion-clawed exposed steppes of Afghanistan? ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Here, in the rocky steppes of the western part of the continent, there was no water, and the coldness leeched into every living thing, through hair, fur, and skin, whether worn or grown. ❋ Cromsblood (2010)

Bill Ingalls/NASA/Zumapress.com The TMA-21 spacecraft, carrying NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyayev, kicked up a cloud of dirt as it landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan Friday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the long, tapered face, hazel eyes slanted slightly upward at broad cheekbones that made him think of snowy steppes and Chekhov. ❋ David Ackley (2011)

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