Sentence examples for vast flatlands from inspiring English sources

Southwest The sun-baked Southwest might seem an inhospitable environment, but its astonishingly varied habitats host an array of plants and animals adapted to steep mountains and canyons, sere deserts and vast flatlands.

Meltwaters from this ice sheet occasionally ponded in front of the wasting ice mass, leading to vast, flat lake plains that have been drained and are now intensively farmed for example, the plains west of Toledo, Ohio, or the vast flatlands of Lake Agassiz in eastern North Dakota and southern Manitoba.

Located on the vast flatlands east of Los Angeles, the region of roughly 3 million people has suffered one of the highest rates of foreclosures and surges in unemployment in the nation.

From the air, the city looks like a frontier fort (which is what it originally was) in the middle of a vast flatland.

In the arid far-western region of South Africa is a vast flatland covered with white quartzite gravel known as the Knersvlakte – Afrikaans for "Gnashing Plain" – because it sounds like grinding teeth when you walk across it.

I was in a city named Calgary, a place situated on a vast flatland beneath the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains, which faces terrible winds screaming in from the Tundra for eight months of the year.

They live in a sleepy village in the middle of the vast flatland of Henan Province.

As soon as they are discharged, if their parents are dead they go to an orphanage that is an hour and a half outside Monrovia, in the vast rural flatland near the airport and the crematorium.

IN this vast Gloucestershire flatland dotted with abandoned airplane hangars, a former Royal Air Force Station where pilots once plotted classified missions during World War II, the artist Damien Hirst was overseeing a secret operation of his own one recent morning.

The name of the German-born auteur brings to mind sweeping images from his celebrated films of the eighties the vast and uninhabited flatlands of "Paris, Texas," complemented by Ry Cooder's acoustic slide guitar; the angels lurking over Berlin in "Wings of Desire," the divided city shown spectacularly from on high in art-house black-and-white.

Evolutionary throwbacks that have been congregating in vast flocks on the flatlands of Nebraska for five million years or more, they have no such burden of consciousness, acting only on ancient memory, performing basic cycles of birth and rebirth that humans forget at their peril.