Sentence examples for arid field from inspiring English sources

But on Saturday night more than a million people slept on sleeping bags, cardboard boxes and plastic bags in the open air of a vast, arid field belonging the University of Rome in preparation for the pope's Mass today.

But they decided not to salvage the pictures -- including a tintype I remember as a child, showing a group of unsmiling Irish-Texan farmers standing in an arid field, one of them with a long white beard and a cob pipe, presumably my great-great-great grandfather.

Two years later, his immigrant's dream consists of this: a hovel without water or electricity, roofed with sheets of plastic anchored by rocks, set in the middle of an arid field where garbage skitters in the enervating wind out of Africa.

You reach the village by a dusty track that leads through arid fields of shriveled corn and millet.

It's African farmers dropping dust from their arid fields from their fingers for a camera and a charity appeal.

But if Harrison's stories of wrecked marriages, closet vices and family feuds give it a surface resemblance to Peyton Place, it also has a fair amount in common with the blasted heath of "King Lear" and the arid fields of Samuel Beckett's tramps.

Once Amman's urban sprawl falls away, replaced by rolling arid fields and olive groves, it is only a short drive to Madaba where the King's Highway begins.

Diversity of the vertical distribution of the root systems of different species allows efficient maximization of plant growth and crop yields in unfavorable environments with poor resource mobility, such as infertile or arid fields (Hodge et al. 2009; Rich and Watt 2013).

We therefore designed a field experiment in an arid area where cotton production almost completely relies on irrigation.

Five different Asterochloris clades occurred in high alpine and temperate regions (Hochtor, Ruine Homburg and Gynge Alvar) but none at the hot and arid Tabernas field site in SE-Spain.

The road cuts through endless arid black fields of hardened lava that evoke a postapocalyptic landscape.