Sentence examples for rocky land from inspiring English sources

Then, as now, the villagers survived by coaxing a few vegetables from the dry, rocky land.

He built this place from scratch, on a patch of wild and rocky land.

He believes a man who owned the rocky land a long time ago was named Buck.

Glaciers crawl across the rocky land, slowly grinding the underlying stone into a fine powder.

They are particularly adapted for use in hard, dry soils, shrubby or bushy land, or on rocky land.

They now live together in a shack made of breeze blocks, cardboard and plastic sheeting on rocky land.

It was also one of the poorest and most depressed fragments of the Canadian population, scratching out a subsistence on the rocky farming land north of Halifax.

The villages of The Bottom and Windward Side, occupying the old volcanic crater, are approached up a steep road from a rocky landing place on the southern coast.

The villages of The Bottom and Windward Side, occupying an old crater, are approached by a steep road from a rocky landing place on the southern coast.

Gov. Mike Pence's rocky landing at La Guardia lends itself to political metaphor, but reporters who cover the Republican ticket are familiar with the choppy times aboard the candidates' planes.

We were in the foothills of Picos de Europa, where everything is vertical: the sheer mountain faces, the steep pine trees, the skinny roads dotted with tiny cars nervously hugging the shoulders, flocks of sheep perched on the rocky lands, lone goats standing expertly on their hind legs munching from a thicket of low-hanging leaves, a cacophony of cowbells and beams of sunlight warming it all.