How to Use Eurasian in a Sentence

Eurasian

adjective
Definition of Eurasiannext
  • With a wingspan of up to 6 feet, the Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the world’s largest owls.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
  • At dawn, cooing doves and trilling Eurasian blackbirds woke me.
    — Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • The pitch range was very similar to that of two kinds of raptors known to nest in the area, Eurasian kestrels and sparrow hawks.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Eurasian eagle owl, for instance, is one of the largest and most widely distributed owls in the world.
    — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • Frankopan is at his most confident on the drier terrain of the Eurasian steppe, the setting of his last book.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • This is the second death of a Eurasian eagle owl at the zoo in less than three years, according to the Star Tribune.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The subject was Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, and his year on the loose in Manhattan.
    — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • There are three types of lynxes other than the bobcat: the Canadian lynx, the Iberian lynx and the Eurasian lynx.
    — Abigail Beck, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Etna sits near where the African plate meets the Eurasian plate, but from there the situation grows complex, Behncke explains.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl flew from his enclosure in Central Park Zoo and into the hearts of millions around the world.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024
  • Some states allow year-round hunting for Eurasian collared doves with no bag limit.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • There are no female Eurasian eagle-owls in New York, and so for Flaco, no potential mates.
    — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Where the earthquake occurred in Morocco, the African plate is slowly slamming into the Eurasian plate, but at a pace of only about 3.6mm a year.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This material is so valuable that, hundreds of years ago, it was traded across the ancient world, shipped via a Eurasian network of paths known as the Silk Road.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
  • First, the United States is embroiled in a major Eurasian rimland war, one that must be fought and won to preserve American power.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Here, the Eurasian and North American plates gradually draw away from one another, sending molten rock welling up from the deep to erupt at the surface.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In the early decades of the 13th century, the great tectonic plates of Eurasian geopolitics shifted rapidly.
    — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • Morocco is positioned at the juncture of a slow-motion tectonic crash between the African and Eurasian plates.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Earthquakes are common in the Himalayan region, which spans a fault line between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Then alewives, sea lampreys, Eurasian watermilfoil and others all were introduced into the lake and made their mark.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • On conventional maps, trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent were assumed to avoid the mountains of Central Asia.
    — Hannah Peart, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • It was associated with the early nomadic people of the Eurasian steppe, such as the Yuezhi and the ruling dynasty of the Kushans—an empire known for the a love of architecture and art and the spread of Buddhism.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • For decades, scholars debated whether these languages spread from the Eurasian steppe or from early farmers in Anatolia, in what is now Turkey.
    — Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Which genes stay and which genes go Roughly two percent of the present-day Eurasian genome is derived from Neanderthal genetic variants, but which two percent varies.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Over time, tectonic activity caused the ocean to shrink as the African and Eurasian plates moved closer together, becoming the Mediterranean.
    — Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Still, two large nuclear powers that are on friendly terms standing back-to-back on the giant Eurasian landmass is a major headache for Washington.
    — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Mountains were formed by the collision of three tectonic plates: Arabic, Eurasian, and Anatolian.
    — Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates occurred at a relatively shallow depth, which makes a quake more dangerous.
    — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Wolves, bears, and the endangered Eurasian lynx can be spotted roaming through Risnjak National Park.
    — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Similar to the screeches of the raptors that inhabited the region many millennia ago, the researchers say that the instruments imitated the sounds of the Eurasian kestrel and Eurasian sparrowhawk.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023

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