Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In due course he called forth “a grand army of husbandmen … to battle against the timberless prairies,” and on April 10, 1872, established the first Arbor Day.

From Slate • May 25, 2020

Both of them are remote timberless places in the center of swampy regions.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

Wood River I "make my bow" to the first growth of natural timber since leaving the mountains, which indicates my gradual advance off the vast timberless plains.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas

It was timberless and whitish-looking, and I had no doubt of finding water at it.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest

From my vantage-point on the ridge I had an unobstructed view of the encampment, a great circle of tepees and tents three miles in circumference, cradled in a sag of the timberless hills.

From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Beach, Rex Ellingwood