Sentence examples for empty countryside from inspiring English sources

On the road again the dog ambles through empty countryside.

I'm gazing at a square kilometre of "empty" countryside in Oxfordshire.

The rebels, who control the largely empty countryside, continue to harass the cities but show little interest in capturing them.

It's going to cost the US billions to bomb Iraq and a lot of that is empty countryside.

But if you do fetch up in such a resort, a 20-minute drive will deliver you to some of southern Europe's most scented, empty countryside.

Another shrine in rural Jhelum sits in a gloomy room atop a hillock in the middle of empty countryside, where worshippers believe that rubbing the black, sooty residue from the oil lamps around their eyes will improve their sight.

The government responded by arming the Janjaweed, paying them and giving them helicopter support in scorched-earth operations intended to empty the countryside.

Venture inland, and you find empty bikeable countryside, and more than a millennium's worth of visible history waiting to be explored.

Better educational and employment opportunities in the towns and cities have emptied the countryside of young people.

In the rest of the world urban development empties the countryside, whereas in Africa population growth is so buoyant that even in rural areas it is rising".

To deny the rebels the chance to loot food and abduct civilians, the army emptied the countryside, herding civilians into vast and squalid "protection" camps.