Sentence examples for desert burning from inspiring English sources

In "The Massive", seven men live alone in the desert, burning the rubbish created by the thousands of other contractors working in Iraq; the book begins with descriptions of their subsequent deaths, all linked to the toxic fumes billowing up into the desert air from the burn pits at Camp Liberty, which do not, officially, exist.

Nayeri had been charged with torture and kidnapping for abducting a marijuana dispensary owner, dragging him to the desert, burning him with a blowtorch and then severing the man's penis in a bizarre plot to force him to divulge the location of hidden cash stores.

For a desert, Burning Man is home to a fair amount of aquatic life.

Meanwhile, the grainy ground on which these images appear mutates from desert, to burning coals, to masses of humanity crowded together in protest or remembrance.

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After two days of trekking, a wound in his leg turned puffy and black under the burning desert sun.

With burning desert on either side of the river and Apache lurking along its banks, the Spanish named this track northward the Jornada del Muerto – the Journey of Death.

The cut from Lawrence's blown-out match to the burning desert sun is itself a masterpiece: a tiny imagist cine-poem.

Surrounded by a great enemy force, Hussein and his company existed without water for 10 days in the burning desert of Karbala.

The bad news is that he has to break rocks in the burning desert sun.

Each of them has spent upwards of 15 years in the field, so when he sees something on the big screen, he can see in his mind's eye the miles of gleaming stainless steel traversing the burning desert sands under a dusty sky.