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Meanings of prairy (prairies) in English
We have no meanings for "prairies" in our records yet.
Usage of prairies in English
1
The emigrants had in those days to cross the prairies in wagons.
2
Numerous natural clearings or prairies relieve the sameness of the luxuriant forests.
3
Daylight found him in the buckboard, skimming the prairies for the station.
4
They hunted on the prairies, and speared fish in the neighboring pools.
5
The moon was now well up on the prairies of the sky.
6
The area was locally known as the prairies or the black belt.
7
For miles over the silent prairies could these murderous yells be heard.
8
You know there are extensive prairies in that part of the state.
9
Ever since courageous Americans crossed the prairies, western songs have been popular.
10
This, however, is a general precaution among the tribes of the prairies.
11
Not until the 1880s did the phrase come to mean the prairies.
12
At our feet were prairies rich as the garden of the Lord.
13
They were found wild, in droves of thousands, grazing on the prairies.
14
Leaving the Assiniboin River, they crossed the North Dakota prairies on foot.
15
The vast forests and endless prairies give a romance to common things.
16
It does not all lie upon the prairies, or among red-skinned savages.
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Prairies through the time
Prairies across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common