Sentence examples for searing desert from inspiring English sources
The dromedary has horny pads on the chest and knees that protect it from searing desert sand when it lies down; the Bactrian camel lacks these callosities.
Instead they ride camels through the searing desert air, their stomachs bloated from malnutrition, as their parents watch with pride.People in neighbouring countries are no better off.
The US Bureau of Reclamation estimates that 800,000 acre-feet of water – nearly six percent of the Colorado River's annual flow – is baked off Lake Mead's surface by the searing desert sun during an average year.
The 2009 edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Southern California's annual celebration of rock, pop, hip-hop and searing desert heat, will be held a bit earlier than in previous years, its producers said.
How many athletes, to spare themselves from training under a searing desert sun, would lay out a course in their house, roll up rugs and walk laps, changing directions every 15 minutes for hours at a time — with a wife, a daughter and two dogs under the same roof?
As if being wrongly accused of stealing a pair of trainers isn't bad enough, Stanley Yelnats is sent to the Camp Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility, where he spends his days digging perfectly proportioned holes in the full glare of the searing desert sun with only scorpions, tarantulas, rattlesnakes and yellow-spotted lizards for company.
Authorities said the youngsters endured searing deserts and frigid mountains, as well as malnourishment.
Most immigrants now need smugglers to guide them through searing deserts and hidden mountain passes where there are gaps in Border Patrol surveillance.
They patrolled in drastically different environments: searing deserts, congested cities, the snowy Sierra Nevada, the straightaways of the San Joaquin Valley.
Arizona, with its searing deserts and saw-toothed mountains, has long been a Republican bastion, a place of conservative-leaning politics and liberal gun laws.
A French couple who died during an afternoon hike across the searing New Mexico desert likely saved their nine-year-old son by giving him two sips of water for each one they took before the supply ran out, a sheriff has said.
