Sentence examples for dusty poor from inspiring English sources

It is a dusty, poor, oil-producing area, home to rival ethnic groups and heavily armed militias.

The crowds followed him through the streets of the dusty poor coastal towns as if he were a pied piper, waving white handkerchiefs and clapping in unison -- customs of the cultlike Apra, which has been strong in that part of Peru since it led an armed revolt against the oligarchy and army in the 1930's.

It doesn't even do this well: the sound is unbalanced, some of the original footage unsynched and, as Dusty, poor Alison Arnopp is not just forced to compete with Springfield's voice, a contest in which she inevitably comes off worst, but with several bizarre holograms of the dead singer.

Libya seems dusty and poor in comparison, and they wonder why.

Istanbul is dusty and poor.

Those shows favored dusty, miserable outbacks whose charm usually lay in being too poor to support a McDonald's.

Poor, dusty, bereft of oil, unfathomably complex in its divisions and rivalries, Yemen is a mess even by failed state standards.

When we first meet Darlene (Regina Casé), she is visibly pregnant and preparing to leave her home in a poor, dusty corner of Northeastern Brazil.

And he has restrained his painterly temperament -- the sense of color and composition he used to magnificent effect in movies like "Ju Dou" and "Red Sorghum" -- preferring simply to observe the ragged textures and jerky rhythms of daily life in a poor, dusty corner of modern China.

The poor, dusty thing had been stuffed years ago and was now wheeled out every morning by a butcher whose shop was festooned with cinghiale sausage.

Many will look at this strange juxtaposition and blame it on the backwardness of the South, the narrow minds of the white poor, dusty rural ignorance.