Sentence examples for burnt ground from inspiring English sources

Heather thrives on burnt ground and depleted soils.

In America they call this fireweed because it likes burnt ground: here that colour makes it look as if this English meadow is itself burning.

Further along the riverbank, on a patch of burnt ground, I found bonfire moss, Funaria hygrometrica, growing amid the blackened earth and charcoal.

It's pretty confusing, but as I understand it, the significant rituals begin on the night of Ash Wednesday, when participants covered in body paint made from burnt, ground-up corn who are meant to represent Jews and Romans perform a dance that signifies the "rise of evil".

The tension between expansive space and thin paint rubbed into burnt-sienna grounds calls to mind Rothko.

In the town of Burnt Forest, just south of Eldoret, the scarred remains of houses, burnt to the ground in the violence, stand as silent reminders of what happened in those terrible weeks.

He used ground burnt clay for soil.

The new lodge was completely destroyed, burnt to the ground.

You see that Omega symbol burnt into the ground?

More than 125 homes burnt to the ground in Breezy Point, a beachside district in Queens.

One recently burnt to the ground, killing the family inside, after a candle set the place alight.