Sentence examples for parched land from inspiring English sources

Others saw the rain as a blessing in this parched land.

This is a post-apocalyptic place of felled cities, parched land and downtrodden people.

But with good guys like Holland on the job, it might yet rain on this parched land.

The daughter tells me about the journey to Mogadishu — a 200-mile trek across arid, parched land, with adults huddling around children to protect them first.

More than 1,400 people have died in a continuing heatwave in India that has seen extreme temperatures melt roads, dry wells and crack parched land.

As Stalin's trains snake back and forth across the parched land, their carriages crammed with the victims of his purges, the director of photography, Khasanbek Kydyraliev, squeezes sentiment from vivid close-ups of railway ties and the desperate games of children running wild.

These parched lands, once washed over by the sea, guard one of the most coveted troves of marine fossils known to paleontology.

He was at various points accused of being a spy, of buying up land to create a Zionist enclave, and of planning to ship Chile's fresh water to parched lands overseas.

He thought this visual accompaniment made the song come full circle, saying, "And here it was, nearly twenty years later, coming back to Africa, all the stuff about parched lands and deserts making sense for the first time".

Crops wither in the parched earth.

Half of them are in Ethiopia, primarily in the Ogaden region bordering Somalia, where three years of drought has parched the land and dried up wells.