Sentence examples for desolate prairie from inspiring English sources
Surrounded by desolate prairie and desert, Sinjar has long been a way station for foreign fighters.
Stuff happens — a marriage here, a child there — yet Scherfig has no option but to choose sequence over consequence, and the movie soon subsides into a desolate prairie of uneventfulness.
It begins in the snowy Ruby Mountains of northern Nevada in 1868, continues across a desolate prairie and ends on arid salt flats that stretch out endlessly towards shimmering hills.
In 1872, when it was a grubby village in a desolate prairie, one visitor claimed that the first words Dallasites taught their babies were "Hurrah, hurrah for Dallas!" The New Yorker's John Bainbridge noted: "No matter how grand its trappings, Dallas will remain at heart a drummer".
His brother--my grandfather, who lived on the mainland at the time--was declared a potential threat to his country and imprisoned in an internment camp in the desolate prairie of southeastern Colorado.
Prominent new Relovilles will pop up in sleepy old towns like Castle Rock, Col., and Gaithersburg, Md., and others in desolate prairies like Frisco and Flower Mound, outside Dallas.
Strolling back down the cold and desolate Main Street, while feeling a prairie wind like I've never felt before cutting through town at each cross street, I played a little soccer with a tumbleweed.
The stage backdrop was a flat, empty prairie, and the songs were just as desolate: mostly slow, mostly in minor keys and almost entirely bleak.
The poignantly played "Blue Prairie" saunters along like a slowly setting sun in the desolate distance.
For generations, the bittersweet question around the Schardin family table was this: What in God's name was Theodore Schardin thinking in 1884 when he stopped his wagon here, on a desolate ridge blasted by every last gust of wind that swept across the prairies?
