Prairie, The

American  

noun

1. a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Example Sentences

Across the flat prairie, the church sailed into view, a small ship of salvation on the buffalo grass sea.

From Literature

Both “Main Street”’s Gopher Prairie, the small town that is the stand-in for Sauk Centre, Minn., where Lewis grew up, and Zenith, the medium-size city where Babbitt conducts his prosperous realty business, are meticulously and convincingly anatomized: Lewis always got the details right.

From New York Times

It is the last farmed remnant of Bush Prairie, the 640-acre farm that Bush and his family built in present-day Tumwater when they arrived in Washington 175 years ago.

From Seattle Times

Back in Pleasant Prairie, the suburb popular with sheriffs deputies where Pinter guarded his street with an armed crowd that had tripled in size over the week, the construction company co-owner who had built several uptown shops said he felt grief for his city, and feared that he and neighbors were being lumped in with vigilantes uptown.

From Los Angeles Times

As Margie and her husband and I continued across the prairie, the sun floated above the rim of the earth—a perfect orange sphere that soon became half a sun, then a quarter, before dying off with a burst of dazzling light.

From Literature