Sentence examples for burned field from inspiring English sources

"When you plant your maize in a burned field, you must never be afraid of getting your backside dirty," a reference to the dirty business of politics.

Today, it is a wasteland of demolished homes and flooded or burned fields.

In ancient times, armies burned fields as a strategic element of conquest.

Another paid farmers cash to destroy their poppy fields and funded interdiction campaigns in which Afghan security forces burned fields under cultivation.

The Syrian forces stormed into the town after a daylong drive north in which they burned fields and fired on civilians as they closed in, according to local residents reached by phone.

For the last month, refugees have fled to the border zone from across the rural northwestern province of Idlib, where security forces burned fields and assaulted communities to try to tame a string of towns that hosted larger and larger antigovernment protests each week.

Homes were burned, fields destroyed, people were killed or disappeared.

Burning fields and a sky filled with drones.

The fire, quickly spread by the wind, burned a field.

Outraged, the Kurdish man's family burned his fields, stole his livestock, and threatened murder.

We burned certain fields so that they would produce new growth.