Sentence examples for desolate countryside from inspiring English sources
Trains carrying nothing but corpses through a desolate countryside became the totemic image of the savagery of partition.
Bauer casually mentions that in this desolate countryside "children disappeared all the time, and a few turned up dead".
They are kept in a small pen behind the Lion's Den, a pub on a ranch in desolate countryside 75 miles south of Johannesburg.
The son of a recently promoted Commandant, nine-year-old Bruno and his family leave Berlin to the desolate countryside of Germany.
Quite literally: much of the time you strain your eyes to make out figures in twilight and fog, and several important scenes occur in the utter, disorienting blackness of night in the desolate countryside.
Bewildered by what is going on, Davis sends report after report detailing the piles of bodies, the open-air concentration camps, the men dispatched with bullets, the women driven through the desolate countryside until they die of thirst or are murdered.
Viewed from a helicopter, there is little that differentiates a cluster of farming villages just outside this remote town near the border with Afghanistan from the desolate surrounding countryside.
FROM the first days of the war in Afghanistan, United States officials have pointed to a dangerous weapon in the desolate Afghan countryside: the poppy fields that have spread over thousands of acres in recent years, turning the nation into by far the largest source of opium and heroin in the world.
Ten days ago I stayed in Umtata, the former capital of the Transkei: it is like a sacked city, with empty tower-blocks and slum streets the surrounding countryside is tragically desolate, with horrendous unemployment and crime.
Despite the blue sky and green grass and rolling countryside, the region seems desolate, perhaps because that is all there is: blue sky and green grass.
We'll create a gallery of a selection of your landscapes, be they of industrial grandeur in Redcar, coastal wildness in Whitby, dramatic Northumberland countryside, or any other area of beauty, desolate or not..
