A row of burned houses; a charred bit of burnt wood; a burned-over site in the forest; barricaded the street with burnt-out cars.    From LearnThat.org. 

Kouprey capitalize on the young growth in burned-over areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Wild Banteng] Reference

A circle of burned-over grass and rubbish surrounded each fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

There was no town, nothing but the rails and the burned-over country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Stories] Reference

C. junghuhniana often forms pure stands in dry and periodically burned-over areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Who suffers most when the forces of holiness and certainty decide to create a burned-over district?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobbes in the Himalayas] Reference

Pine trees are often the pioneer woody species that flourish in burned-over areas or on abandoned arable land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests] Reference

This is the way it should be, Van thought a little sadly, thinking of the burned-over fields, and ravaged villages of the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Price]

Out in the meadows, near the treelines that marked the grazing fields and burned-over stubbles, other fires marked a pe - rimeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Thorbardin]

He, too, like his directorial namesake, originates from contested and burned-over territory — on the Alsatian frontier between France and Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobbes in the Himalayas] Reference

Federal funds should be increased so that the Forest Service can undertake on a large scale the replanting of burned-over lands in the National Forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The School Book of Forestry] Reference

Now, as he watched the black hopper that was nibbling at the wool of his sock with its fourway lip, he realized that they had all turned black from living in the burned-over land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Stories] Reference

It was big enough for a city itself, a thick band of ramshackle brush huts and rickety tents made from scraps, on burned-over ground, clinging to the high gray walls as far as he could see.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

This probably includes all burned-over lands, in much of which the standing timber is not destroyed, but the saplings and seedlings are killed as well as the grass for grazing and for the protection of the roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference

We might say that the Bay area had become, for him, a burned-over district. 89 It was time for the group that had matured on the road to develop a community of their own, in which they could organize work, marriage, and family life around the agreements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83] Reference

Where Reeve had first squatted under the needle tree with Hrrestan and the other elders of the village, there was no dust where restless fingers had made patterns; only an unblemished thick layer of tree droppings No indentations were left to mark where the heavy trestle bench had been; no burned-over area where the fire had flared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decision at Doona]

They were in the burned-over semi-barren of the hill-top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador] Reference

Nobody seemed to have returned to the burned-over space since the ship's departure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation: Outer Space] Reference

If we can't count on being found right away, this burned-over place will be green again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation: Outer Space] Reference

It also vies with the lodge-pole pine in quickness of taking possession of burned-over areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Life on the Rockies] Reference

Often it is the first plant to make a settlement or establish a colony on a barren or burned-over area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Life on the Rockies] Reference

And Carley soon became aware that they had at last left the cut and burned-over district of timberland behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Canyon] Reference

Passing a bend half a mile above we came in sight of a beautiful wooded island, and saw that we had reached the edge of the burned-over country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador] Reference

Almost he lost his bearings, and finally would have ridden toward his enemies had not good fortune favored him in the matter of an open burned-over stretch of ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Star Ranger] Reference

It has been called the "burned-over decade," a "dream and a nightmare," the "definitive end of the Dark Ages, and the beginning of a more hopeful and democratic period" in American history.    From Wordnik.com.  [AmericanHeritage.com] Reference

The Associated Press reviewed hundreds of pages of research papers related to the conflict over the logging project and its potential impact on wildlife, including the rare black-backed woodpecker, which prefers burned-over sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Carbon offsets work if you think that putting carbon up high into the atmosphere and then paying for a small tree to be planted, one that probably was going to be planted before you bought it, into maybe a burned-over rainforest, really offset your carbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

"I've taken a job in Canada -- reforesting of burned-over areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [I've Married Marjorie] Reference

I mean, if my legacy were a burned-over wasteland painted with tears, I’d be bummed too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nunc Scio » 2008 » December] Reference

A frequent or prolific seed bearer, it still insists on a moist loose seed-bed and prefers the natural forest floor to burned-over land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods] Reference

The hillside was burned-over desolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

A burned-over area are thus destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference