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"Tundra" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The tundra has a harsh climate.
Are there many mice in the tundra?
Are there many arctic foxes in the tundra?
Alaska holds an annual contest in which teams of 16 dogs pull sledges a distance of about 1,800 kilometres through tundra and forests, crossing rivers, hills and mountain passes. The sledge driver is often called a "musher"; the word comes from the French command "Marche!" In most years the winning musher is from Alaska, but a Swiss citizen has won the event four times, and a Norwegian has won twice.
I hate the tundra.
Most reindeer live in the Arctic tundra.
Examples of animals common to alpine tundra environments include mountain goats, pikas, chinchillas, yaks, and marmots.
Alpine tundra is a biome or natural region at high elevation which does not contain trees.
A little more than 40 hours after leaving Moscow's Yaroslavsky station, the Vorkuta Express pulled into its terminus after a 2,000-kilometer journey through the taiga forests and tundra of Russia's far north.
"All you care about is the Middle East, Middle East, Middle East... Aren't also the Arctic tundra, Amazon jungles, Australian Outback, etc. sacred grounds?" "I never thought about it!"
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The hut's walls rose without difficulty, and everything went smoothly until the problem of the roof confronted me. Of what use the four walls without a roof? And of what could a roof be made? There were the spare oars, very true. They would serve as roof-beams; but with what was I to cover them? Moss would never do. Tundra grass was impracticable. We needed the sail for the boat, and the tarpaulin had begun to leak.
His wife and he were childhood sweethearts; he had known her for 25 years. (He will call her “my wife” throughout, just as he cannot bear to name his two sons, however carefully and lovingly he will eventually describe them. They remain “the older one” and “the younger one.”) There are tundras of time for him to cross and cross again as he recalls their life together and its sudden end: a quarter‐century of quotidian love and bruises and the ultimate estrangement of long familiarity.
When you stood at the gulf of unknowing, / When you saw the great tundra of time, / And you cried for the winds to come blowing, / And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon, / 'Cause the roads were all dusty and dry.
Putting on paper exactly what steps I need to take for each project does promote peace of mind, I find. And in my eagerness to tick items off on my "next action" lists, my productivity ramps up. Still, there are days of backsliding. I go to research something online, but once out on the wild Web, lose my way—and vast tundras of time—wandering further away from whatever I was looking for with each click of the mouse.
We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.
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