Example Sentences

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Most of the land in the buttes is held by a small number of legacy families who primarily use the fields for grazing cattle and sheep.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

She wants the public to be able to appreciate the peace and beauty of the buttes, but echoed landowners’ concerns about the delicate ecosystem and centuries-old Native American artifacts that remain largely untouched.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

My roughly 60-mile section was marked by sienna-hued mesas and buttes, and cornflower-blue skies.

From New York Times • May 1, 2024

Across 15,000 square miles, between Spokane, Quincy and Walla Walla, the landscape is teeming with desolate cliffs, buttes and canyons.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

But humans being what they are, and I being human, I turned off the highway on a shaley road and headed in among the buttes, but with a shyness as though I crashed a party.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck