Sentence examples for a dead land from inspiring English sources

Since most residents have long fled, the neighborhood behind the wall has become "a dead land for cats and dogs," as one former resident described it.

From the scattered earthen villages that passed beneath our craft to the army outpost we sought, every settlement seemed tinged with that same fantastic quality accidents of life in a dead land.

Standing amongst the flowers we felt their dull roots stirring all around us, feeding a little life out of the dead land.

JK: Three years of war, 400,000 dead, land laid waste, a scarred national psyche -- are we invited to read the book as a metaphor for our own time?

Ruth Shady had heard of some mysterious unexplained mounds and, alone, set off through the desert to find them and then right in the middle of this dead land she found this: a huge hill rising out of the desert.

It was shaped almost like an arrow, and surrounded on all sides by dead land and farms.

Xue Jianwan, 40, the daughter of the dead land activist, Xue Jinbo, had been nominated for a seat on the new committee.

"This is the dead land...," intones T.S. Eliot in The Hollow Men.

His zombie films ("Dawn of the Dead," "Land of the Dead," "Day of the Dead") have been interpreted as critiques of consumerism and class warfare.

The inspiration for the dead land of Elidor, Garner says, came from the weeks he spent on his sick bed as a child, staring at the ceiling.

Any visitor to the West Midlands and the urban north is familiar with the sight of acres of dead land.