Part of the Kazakhstan landscape

Usage examples of steppe.

They were fast long-distance runners that could outdistance their predators only on the firm level surfaces of the windy steppes.

They would surely turn him out, and in the freezing cold night of the periglacial steppes there was no place to go.

They lived year-round in the northern periglacial regions of the steppes, where the cold was deeper but dry, and snow was slight, feeding in winter on the coarse, dry standing hay.

The few people who inhabited those periglacial steppes had little opportunity to meet anyone new, and the excitement of this chance encounter would fuel discussions and fill the stories of Falcon Camp for a long time to come.

They lived on dogback, up in the northern steppes, hunting the big grazing sauroids and anything else that moved with their huge two-meter 15mm rifles.

Fireheel, but most on small shaggy mounts bred of the fierce tarpans roaming the steppes.

Usually they fed during part of the night, since they traveled so much during the day and needed large quantities of the rough grass of the steppes to sustain them.

She had no intention of depending on their dried traveling food for their morning meal, though the steppes had fewer fat birds to feed after they ate.

Pangani River north and west, up toward Arusha, beside the Masai Steppe, Kilimanjaro towering before us, more image than mountain, silhouetted gray and black against the hazy pink light of dawn.

The pen offered no shelter, being merely a circle of open steppe surrounded by barbed wire guarded by sentries.

China--and known to the Tibetan lama, the Buryat shaman of the steppes and to the warlock of the South Seas alike.

Split River and around the tall, flat-topped buttes that dotted this stretch of steppe with brooding, sharp-edged cliffs.

But it turned out to be much harder to hunt deer and boar in the forests than it had been to ambush reindeer crossing rivers on the open steppe.

She had dreaded the thought of leaving this pleasant valley and facing more grueling days of traveling the parched windy steppes, dreaded the thought of traveling any more at all.

Katya stared across the wide steppe, at the two dust clouds roiling behind the hiwi Nikolai and the escaping prisoner Breit, galloping away.