Example Sentences

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The New Forest is home to ancient woodland, fens, heaths and bogs, making it a diverse habitat.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025

In other words, they created the varied landscapes of meadows, heaths and grasslands that characterized our cultural landscapes before the advent of modern agriculture.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023

People wander in empty stone corridors or across blasted heaths, surveyed at crooked angles or from above to emphasize their alienation from one another.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Over the last 70 years, 98% of wildflower meadows in England and Wales have been destroyed; three-quarters of ponds and heaths have vanished; half the remaining fragments of ancient woods have been obliterated.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020

During the entire walk, across the heaths and fens near Cambridge, Lessing did all the talking; Watson said not one word.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee