Sentence examples for parched terrain from inspiring English sources

The mountainous and the snowcaps of the Hindu Kush apart largely parched terrain, traversed by only a few ragged roads, also helps to explain why the country has never been rich.

As the region's parched terrain drifts past the car's dust-smeared windshield, the candid longing of a pretty call girl for "a leisure life" could not possibly seem more fruitless or more rueful.

The documentary captures the bleak landscape and the exotic drama of the nomads, who fold their gers and move whenever water runs out, which happens quickly in this parched terrain.

With a commanding view over the parched terrain, the headquarters looks like a fortress.

Liberals always seem to be haplessly scrambling to build consensus among themselves, with visible cracks appearing in the party like some drought stricken parched terrain.

In the parched terrain inhabited by "Transpecos," which took home an audience award from this year's SXSW film festival, the element of subtlety has an unmistakable scent of its own.

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

Painted in the Badlands of the Dakotas and billed by Christie's experts as Eakins's last great landscape, the painting depicts large stretches of parched, mountainous terrain with two cowboys and their horses.

In the Lake View Terrace area near the Angeles National Forest, firefighters on Thursday managed to quell a fire spreading rapidly in parched, rugged terrain just 15 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

I wanted to use this parched, vast terrain to write about a young woman in her 20s who is ashamed of her small life and of her own despair.

There are side trips to fissured ice caps, disappearing glaciers — the snows of yesteryear — and expanses of newly parched and broken terrain.