Sentence examples for barren sand from inspiring English sources

A plot of splintered land, Attired in thorns and nettles, strewn with barren sand".

Namibia's soils range from barren sand and rock to low-quality sand-dominated to relatively fertile soils.

It is an African settlement built on the barren sand of the Cape flats, 20 miles from the lush gardens and mountains of Cape Town.

With its aromatic eucalyptus groves, rolling fog and swooping parrots, the Presidio may look like "The Land That Time Forgot," but it was largely a barren sand dune before soldiers planted trees there in the late 19th century.

Outside the old city walls, over the barren sand plateau, stretch great fields of tombs and graves, for pious Shīʿites believe that Al-Najaf is so holy that to be buried there is to ensure entry into paradise.

The 640 or so state-owned acres of tumbleweed and barren sand deep in the desert of Southern California, by the Arizona and Mexico borders, is not really a city, or town, or much of anything else.

It stands on a mostly barren sand-ridden plain about 4,000 feet (1,200 metres) above sea level.

But these barren, sand-swathed landscapes can also be a setting for despair and isolation.

Around the ruin of understanding, the vast and barren sands of our culture stretch to the horizon in every direction.

Sugar: Soft white Pine Barrens sand.

A preserve was set up by the State Legislature in 1988 and is located on the western edge of the city, spilling into Guilderland and Colonie; it is the only sizable inland pine barrens sand dune ecosystem in the United States, and is home to many endangered species, including the Karner Blue butterfly.