Sentence examples for parched vegetation from inspiring English sources
The parched vegetation is so completely coated in deep orange dust that for miles by the roadside the landscape is completely monochrome.
The blaze, which erupted Sunday morning, had blackened about 1,500 acres and was still burning unchecked over steep terrain and drought-parched vegetation by evening, San Diego County Fire Captain Kendal Brotisser said.
Once white-capped peaks are now brown and bare, lakes are parched and the trees and vegetation vital to them are withering.
The main sources of water in deserts are rivers flowing through from wetter regions, which provide green bands of riparian vegetation in otherwise parched landscapes.
In images of dune-covered terrain dotted with parched-looking vegetation, the earth is made of table salt; the plants are made of nail clippings and eyelashes.
Fires had turned swampy peat bogs, the area's natural vegetation, into land whose parched surface resembled charcoal.
These birds occupy small, parched islands, on which perennial drought severely limits vegetation.
Equally spare, but as parched as Ms. Scott's images are moist, Mel Pekarsky's fragile desert vegetation lends itself beautifully to the linear treatment of soft-ground etching.
Parched oil-field roughnecks?
