Sentence examples for deserted strip from inspiring English sources
"No bonfires," one says, scanning the deserted strip of sand.
Sunday, and a horde of torqued-up Hondas and Acuras had taken over a deserted strip of industrial road in Suffolk County for a drag race.
But as the long-tail pulled up at the immaculate lawns of the Koyao Island Resort, I knew the luxurious sea-view accommodation would never match the magic of a plastic tent on a deserted strip of sand.
Across the bay, fancy yachts and speed boats crowd the shores of the Ilha, a once almost deserted strip of sand used mainly by poor fishermen, on which smart restaurants and nightclubs for the new elite are now springing up.In the surrounding suburbs, brand-new dormitory towns are rising from the bush, relieving the city-centre crush.
While most shops throughout the city have been shuttered, and the streets were relatively deserted, the strip of stands selling shwarma and fruit shakes outside Al Shifa has done a brisk business.
When coastguard officials boarded the 25-metre craft, it was reportedly deserted and stripped of identification papers.
In the looting that followed the regime's collapse, last April, the huge prison complex, by then deserted, was stripped of everything that could be removed, including doors, windows, and bricks.
The location, in a desolate strip of desert, made our stay here even more realistic.
At 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning, the San Bernadino Freeway heading east from Los Angeles toward the San Gabriel Mountains is deserted, and the strip malls and subdivisions that sprawl along the hillsides are still blanketed in the gray sleepiness of night.
The group INDECLINE had already made a name for itself by creating the largest-ever piece of illegal graffiti, by painting a political statement on a deserted military landing strip in the Mojave Desert.
Although it was still raining heavily, Choe's crew spotted a near-deserted strip of Zhejiang coastline on February 28.
