often attributive
: land that is covered or mostly covered with grass
wildflowers blooming in the meadow
especially
: a tract of moist low-lying usually level grassland
Examples of meadow in a Sentence
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Two Larger National Monuments: President Biden plans to expand the perimeters of two national monuments in California, protecting mountains and meadows in a remote area between Napa and Mendocino as well as a rugged stretch east of Los Angeles.
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Chris Hamby, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Then there's Maybury State Park, with its meadow ringed with trees, and its 85 nesting boxes across the park in Wayne County.
—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2024
Developers and entrepreneurs brought large industries and corporate branches to Phoenix for its labor pool, thus leaving agriculture behind and transforming the barren desert and meadows into thriving neighborhoods.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
Wild daffodils are blooming, and buds are greening on trees, but Indiana’s forests and meadows are also seeing an invasion this spring.
—The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024
French Park includes 275 acres of hiking trails, creeks, meadows and hillsides in Amberley Village.
—The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2024
Sources: Reasons to be Cheerful, Statistics Denmark Women in Senegal are donning beekeeping gear to protect mangroves
Mangroves are a haven of biodiversity and, like wetlands and seagrass meadows, store more carbon than terrestrial ecosystems.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Natural light floods in from all sides through plate-glass windows affording huge views of meadows and farmland, the coastline stretching away to east and west, and the hulking form of the Sueve mountain range.
—Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024
Pope’s research has estimated that there were once nearly three times as many meadows in the Sierra.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
Chris Hamby, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Then there's Maybury State Park, with its meadow ringed with trees, and its 85 nesting boxes across the park in Wayne County.
—Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2024
Developers and entrepreneurs brought large industries and corporate branches to Phoenix for its labor pool, thus leaving agriculture behind and transforming the barren desert and meadows into thriving neighborhoods.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
Wild daffodils are blooming, and buds are greening on trees, but Indiana’s forests and meadows are also seeing an invasion this spring.
—The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024
French Park includes 275 acres of hiking trails, creeks, meadows and hillsides in Amberley Village.
—The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2024
Sources: Reasons to be Cheerful, Statistics Denmark Women in Senegal are donning beekeeping gear to protect mangroves
Mangroves are a haven of biodiversity and, like wetlands and seagrass meadows, store more carbon than terrestrial ecosystems.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Natural light floods in from all sides through plate-glass windows affording huge views of meadows and farmland, the coastline stretching away to east and west, and the hulking form of the Sueve mountain range.
—Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024
Pope’s research has estimated that there were once nearly three times as many meadows in the Sierra.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
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“Meadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meadow. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.
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meadow
noun
mead·ow
ˈmed-ō 
: an area of moist low usually level grassland
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