pinyon
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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When Varlin Higbee eyes the scrubby forest of pinyon pines and juniper trees that fill the high desert outside this old Union Pacific Railroad town, there’s just one thought that crosses his mind:
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2024
Pale blue with a white bib, the pinyon jay typically mates for life and can be choosey about where to build a nest.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023
Firefighters fled the 750-foot-high fire front — as tall as a 53-floor building — as it chewed through pine, pinyon and juniper dried by a record-hot spring.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2022
At Brush Creek near Snowmass, we spotted the Clark’s nutcracker along with three kinds of jays — the Steller’s, Woodhouse’s scrub-jay and the pinyon — and large flocks of chatty, yellow-streaked pine siskins.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022
The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder Is merely a far-off temple where the sleepy sun is burning Its altar-fires of pinyon and of toyon for the day.
From Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology by Aldington, Richard
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