Sentence examples for barren reaches from inspiring English sources

On the most remote and barren reaches, robed shepherds stood guarding their flocks of goats or sheep.

Even in the most barren reaches of unsalted soil, some herbage is occasionally available for animals to pasture on, and oases are often densely populated.

Their aim, like the novel's, is to refresh the barren reaches of their home village, transform the lives of the townspeople and wash away the stains of history - the race-hatred and self-hatred that are the very stuff of "real" South African lives.

Agnes DeWitt, a young Swabian nun living on a barren reach of North Dakota, discovers, on the convent piano, a sensuous love for Chopin.

The southern slopes are forested with spruce, aspen, and birch, contrasting with the barren northern reaches of tundra at the edge of Alaska's North Slope.

The entire setting can induce melancholy: maple and oak leaves scatter as if souls were stirring, barren branches reach out as if in supplication.

The fighting here, where the two armies are separated by less than a mile of barren hills, rarely reaches fever pitch.

The thunder moved up from the southwest and lightning lit the desert all about them, blue and barren, great clanging reaches ordered out of the absolute night like some demon kingdom summoned up or changeling land that come the day would leave them neither trace nor smoke nor ruin more than any troubling dream".

Her hair cut bluntly and wearing a loose dress the color of barren earth, she reaches depths of loss when hearing the brother on whom she's pinned her hopes has died.

During much of the year the area is barren and temperatures reach 45C, though it is still home to wolves, hyenas, leopards and eagles.

From Santiago we flew over the spine of the Andes, crossing glaciers and barren wastes to reach the southernmost tip of the continent.