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  • noun Plural form of canyonland.

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Examples

  • No sign of LeBrue, unless his was one of the light specks far behind in the canyonlands.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • Utah is made up of arid deserts and canyonlands, salt flats, wetlands, semiarid shrublands, irrigated valleys, woodlands, forested mountains, and glaciated peaks.

    Ecoregions of Utah (EPA) 2009

  • Its biggest designation is 517,000 acres of wilderness in the high-desert uplands and canyonlands of the Owyhee River in Idaho.

    U.S. House votes to preserve public lands, Hastings prefers exploitation 2009

  • Speaker after speaker told lawmakers the same thing: we're computer programmers and waiters and teachers; we don't mine or graze, and we want Utah's canyonlands and ranges to remain pristine.

    In Utah, The New West Trumps The Old 2008

  • I guess it could use some aerohead wheels or giant dishes with an airbrush painting of a squaw in a blanket with a wolf in the foreground and a lightning storm in the background and like a really old indian lady crying in canyonlands.

    Theme Bikes: Brilliance Rides a Fixed Gear BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • On December 19, 300,000 acres of spectacular red-rock canyonlands in Utah will be opened up to oil and gas speculators.

    u.s. to auction utah canyonlands to oil and gas exploration 2008

  • But we also saw carcasses — several in a row in the low canyonlands, lying in the middle of open land, with nothing to explain why the animals had died.

    Archive 2008-03-01 e 2008

  • On December 19, 300,000 acres of spectacular red-rock canyonlands in Utah will be opened up to oil and gas speculators.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • After the Olympic torch got borne through America's high-desert canyonlands and strip-mall badlands by a relay of well-vetted everyday heroes.

    Corruption: A Spectator Sport 2007

  • I don't mean the town itself, of course, but the country which surrounds it -- the canyonlands.

    Excerpt: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston 2004

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