Sentence examples for withering field from inspiring English sources

As the slow-moving gunship droned overhead, laying down a withering field of fire, the aircraft suddenly was fired upon by antiaircraft artillery on the ground.

Monkey cuts through the withered field by his house as he makes his way toward town.

The fields of the long-gone Arabs of Lydda are now the withering sunflower fields of Ginton and Ben Shemen, two Israeli farms.

The drought has gone on for three years, withering crops, turning fields into dust, and killing livestock.

That was a few months after Nasa scientist James Hansen had told Congress the planet was heating and humans were the cause; it was amid the hottest American summer recorded to that point, with the Mississippi running so low that barges were stranded and the heat so bad that corn was withering in the fields.

But magnetic analysis of the martian surface indicates that when Mars was a mere 500 million years old, its magnetic field withered away.

In more than half a dozen articles and essays, several written in collaboration with his French mentor, the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, he has subjected his field to withering rebuke.

'Nothing on our farm' Ms. Kare surveys her field of withering corn.

And Liverpool's fortunes on and off the field have withered.

"If patients are poorly selected or not followed well, there'll be an increasing number of bad outcomes, and the promise of this field will wither away," said Dr. Ben Greenberg, the psychiatrist in charge of the program at Butler.

In America's agricultural heartland, searing heat and sparse rainfall have left farmers helpless as their corn and soy bean crops wither in dry fields.