Sentence examples for desolate strip from inspiring English sources

City and state officials said yesterday that they had agreed on a plan to transform a desolate strip of waterfront land in Harlem into a recreational area.

But now, federal authorities say they suspect that the men were buried in the same vacant lot on a marshy, desolate strip of the Brooklyn-Queens border.

The abundance of churches in Wakefield is not limited to this block, which sits opposite a desolate strip of auto body shops.

But it is likely for that reason that Mitt Romney chose this desolate strip mall in the San Fernando Valley, just north of Los Angeles, as the spot to criticize President Obama's economic policies.

On Coles Levee Road, a desolate strip owned by Los Angeles County, which uses part of it as a sewage dump, she found the fungus nearly every time she looked.

Within minutes of the explosions, American soldiers and Iraqi police officers with searchlights began combing the desolate strip of land along the eastern side of the Tigris River near the Sheraton Hotel.

The bowling alley is on a desolate commercial strip just south of Northern Boulevard.

Thanking my guardian angel, I drove over a desolate tarmac strip and down the steep-sided Hodder valley to descend into Slaidburn with its dark-stone buildings, Hark to Bounty pub and YHA run by volunteers.

A short walk from Rocksalt, the sleek timber and glass fish restaurant opened by former Claridge's head chef Mark Sargeant in 2011, the long-desolate concrete strip is now proving an added draw for the affluent Londoners whom the Kent port is eager to attract.

"We're trying to raise the visual quality so it looks more like the Americana shopping center than it does a desolate, low-income strip," he said.

Coeur managers cut road exposure down to a 10-mile stretch by flying into and out of a desolate gravel landing strip, which they extended 700 feet and will soon pave.