Desertlike

A few flat-topped buttes, colors ranging from butterscotch to vanilla, were interspersed among the desertlike stretches. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2010)

The area where the Sudanese said the attack occurred, near Port Sudan on the Red Sea, is an isolated, desertlike patch of eastern Sudan populated by mostly nomads and known as one of the poorest, least developed parts of a very poor, underdeveloped country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They left the valley, and the land rapidly turned harsh, almost desertlike. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2009)

Exposed coastal areas support desertlike shrub communities called coastal scrub, dominated by coyote bush, California sagebrush, and bush lupine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We also tested the Cool Surge at an even drier, desertlike setting of 25 percent relative humidity, again, at 85°F. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A survey showed that villagers in this desertlike area rated a need for safe drinking water as their priority problem. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

And I had been reluctant to go to the Canarias cause I thought it was all dry and desertlike ! ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the Saint Louis Zoo Insectarium, check out the desertlike Dune Buggies environment, home to death-feigning beetles (stlzoo. org). ❋ Unknown (2007)

'Where once there was a publishing house relentlessly searching for quality... there now stretch desertlike corporate spaces of major multinational media conglomerates whose understanding and appreciation of books and reading is tantamount to nil.' ❋ Michael Allen (2005)

The truth, which I can't avoid acknowledging when I'm in those vast, desertlike stretches between afternoon breaks, is that I'm just amusing myself, and in what seems like a pretty harmless way. ❋ Ehrenreich, Barbara (2001)

And in the ad there are prisoners going through this revolving door out in a desertlike setting. ❋ Unknown (1997)

There was some plant life up there but it was stunted, desertlike growth. ❋ Cook, Glen (1997)

Finding a nearby tree with low-hanging branches, he stood—a little too quickly, he discovered, as the desertlike world shifted and spun out of focus. ❋ Della Van Hise (1990)