Sentence examples for relentless desert from inspiring English sources

Spines not only defend the juicy stems of cacti against ravenous succulent-eaters, but also shade them from the relentless desert sun.

Her mother is proud of those plants, which thrive under the relentless desert sun as long as they are properly watered and cared for.

But long ago, the relentless desert buried their remains so completely that it was almost beyond imagination that these places once were pivotal links in a maritime trade route that rivaled the better-known overland Silk Road.

That salty, accidentally man-made body of water, with its shoals of calcified fish and bird bones under a relentless desert sun, supplies both a bleak atmosphere and some convenient metaphors for "Little Birds," Elgin James's Sundance-incubated debut feature, which follows Lily and Alison on a journey from boredom to danger.

There, in 1962, aged twenty-six and in hiding for want of a passport, he wrote "Men in the Sun" (Lynne Rienner; $12.95), a novella about three Palestinian refugees who pay a smuggler to take them across a swath of the Iraqi desert to Kuwait: a work as searing as the relentless desert sun that blinds and burns the men, a work in which politics and art cannot be told apart.

There are fears that once summer's relentless desert heat replaces winter's chill, illness could spread like wildfire through the camp.

The high desert and relentless sun fade everything to beige.

After six hours of relentless, mostly featureless high plain desert, you are suddenly peering down into a mile-wide crater.

Part of the reason that Downtown had previously developed into such an economic ghost town is because of Vegas' relentless culture of growth: the desert, the thinking goes, is limitless (it's not, but that's another story).

Never underestimate the desert sun; it is relentless, even in winter.

From El Paso the Rio Grande veers north and the border continues its relentless trek west, through the harsher, cactus-studded desert of New Mexico.