Example Sentences

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Although some tree plantations involve reforestation of degraded land, in many cases they involve afforestation -- planting forests in undegraded and previously unforested regions such as grasslands.

From Science Daily • Oct. 3, 2023

Coal burns slower than firewood, which was expensive and hard to obtain on this unforested stretch of the nation.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2021

To-morrow we can reach an unforested hill that I know of, with a spring flowing out of the side.

From The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

Fortunately for them, their country is too desert and unforested for them to subsist to any great degree by the chase.

From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Huntington, Ellsworth

Back of the town a low unforested mountain heaved a grassy shoulder above the palms, and far off there was a violet tracery of more mountains.

From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Fee, Mary Helen