Great Plains

How To Use Great Plains In A Sentence

• William Hederman, senior vice-president of energy policy at Deloitte & Touche LLP, says companies face the "monumental undertaking" of transmitting electricity generated in windy regions like the Great Plains states to markets in heavily populated cities on the East Coast. Italy
• Barbed wire, a web of railroads throughout the Great Plains, and enforcement of federal land laws all put an end to the open-range cattle industry and the great trails.
• Yellowstone on vacation once it occurred to me that in that strip of the country called the Great Plains, they only have two things going for them: one is grass, the other is wind. Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia
• The Great Plains, occupied by the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, are cut through by the eastward flows and have become a great prairie supporting cattle ranching and wheat cultivation.
• In other words, a scene of a cowpoke loping across the Great Plains would look the same on the silver screen as seeing it in person. Seth Shostak: Are Movie Theaters Doomed?
• The married women of the Cheyenne and Mandan of the Great Plains performed a rite called "Intercourse with the Buffalo. Donna Henes: On Valentines And Vulvas
• This comprised the region about the Tusca, which boasted not less than fifty towns, the district known as the Great Plains, [850] which has been identified with the great basin of the Dakhla of the A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
• The conical shape of the structure makes it stable in the high winds that often blow briskly across the Great Plains, and closable smoke flaps keep driving rains outside.
• They sweeten the spring air of the Great Plains and the Northwest.
• Great Plains, which is the fifth-largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the U.S., has territories in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Coke Buys Another U.S. Bottler