Sentence examples for parched sand from inspiring English sources

It's where wet fen gives way to parched sand.

All morning under a milky sky the waters in the bay had swelled and swelled, rising to unheard-of heights, the small waves creeping over parched sand that for years had known no wetting save for rain and lapping the very bases of the dunes.

I'm standing where blue sky meets the parched sand of a New Mexico desert, and where physics changed forever the course of international affairs.

Local mullahs helped many to travel on to Pakistani cities like Karachi and Lahore or across the parched sands of Baluchistan and into Iran.

The haunting evidence has lain buried for ages in the parched sands of Abydos, resting place of the earliest pharaohs known to history.

Dry winds and sand storms parched the terrain and sucked moisture from anything animate.

The land around what remains of Lake Chad has been reduced to parched savannah and blistering sand.

I made the fortuitous decision to bypass U.S. 67 – the direct route to Presidio – and instead take the prettier and virtually unused Ranch Road 2810, a 44-mile strip of asphalt through dramatic emptiness that eventually turns into 10 miles of dirt road, weaving through cowboy-movie scenery of parched hills the color of toasted sand and blue skies with wispy clouds hanging along the horizon.

The relentless sun sears the parched red soil, turning rivers into dry sand and leaving thorn trees, withered cactuses and weary refugees struggling to survive.

Soon, even, a can of soda: On the 15th hole of a golf course in July, with heat waves bouncing off the sand trap and your mouth parched, youll slip a smart card into the pop machine and discover a can costs a fortune – $3.87!

In place of a sultry Middle East, Aronofsky shoots against the black sands of Iceland in a parched, desiccated landscape that looks less pre-apocalyptic than post-apocalyptic.