Sentence examples for miles of dead from inspiring English sources

Thousands of square miles of dead brush, shrubs and heavy timber, along with unfavorable weather, will keep the wildfire potential above normal through the fall, according to the National Interagency Fire Center's seasonal outlook.

The Mineral Policy Center, an environmental group, calculates the damage at 500,000 abandoned mine sites (some are big and toxic enough to qualify as federal Superfund sites), 10,000 miles of dead streams and 50 billion tons of contaminated waste.

Major fires have hit across the state including San Diego, Kern, Monterey, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo counties, fueled by bone-dry brush and, in some area, miles of dead or dying trees.

Although the dead zone has been documented along 70 miles of coast, dead crabs and fish also have been showing up along Washington's Olympic Peninsula, Barth said.

Cubic miles of dramatic dead air.

Scientists now believe they have pinpointed the transition from wild to domesticated cereals to an area within 50 to 100 miles of the Dead Sea, just before 10,000 years ago.

The effective range at present is only 25 miles, hence a number of dead spots.

But the statistic that means the most to taxi riders is the number of "dead miles," an estimate of how much time cabbies spent cruising for passengers and the best indicator of how readily a cab can be hailed.

I am watching unbelievable pictures of endless swaths of brown oil mixed with the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico, of dying wetlands and marshes, of miles of contaminated coastlines, of dead birds and animals, of helpless and hopeless Gulf Coast residents sadly witnessing their livelihoods and their lives slipping away.

In 1966, the rate was above 5 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, and the number of dead was above 50,000.

Where, in previous years, the highways were bordered with wild flowers and attractive shrubs, there were only the scars of dead vegetation for mile after mile. . . .