Sentence examples for abandoned settlements from inspiring English sources

The abandoned settlements start soon after, weedy and overgrown, with peeling walls and moldy roofs decaying from neglect.

Some Israelis have objected to the prospect of Palestinian factions taking over the abandoned settlements and raising their flag in triumph.

Ruins and folds mark abandoned settlements and, over the pass down to tidal Loch Nevis, a former chapel and inn at Tarbet are now used for holidays.

At best, the mix of tree species is changing and in some areas, vegetation is dying out, leaving ghostlike skeletal remains of forests and abandoned settlements.

Plant and soil data were sampled on and around abandoned settlements.

Both total numbers and dry biomass of these two invertebrate orders were higher on abandoned settlements in comparison with the surrounding landscape.

I left the old man to his radio and walked down into the abandoned settlement.

Near the abandoned settlement is a bare stone ledge overhanging a fjord.

It was a synagogue, and with it was a small, abandoned settlement, fitted out with streetlights, neatly tiled outdoor tables and an elaborate drainage system.

In February 2001, local residents uncovered a grave in an abandoned settlement not far from the main Russian military base in Chechnya, at Khankala.

Leery of French ambitions on the coast, he founded Santa Elena to the north – near an abandoned settlement of French Huguenots who had mutinied a few years earlier.