The arctic is known for its cold, desert-like conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tundra biome] Reference

It was nice: its hot and desert-like here, but beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

Especially in desert-like areas where bristlecone pines live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit] Reference

For example, chocolate melts in 120 degree desert-like climates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Best Ways to Send A Soldier A Package Overseas | myFiveBest] Reference

Some of the flora found in these desert-like areas include Lampaya sp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Andean dry puna] Reference

We've got a desert-like setting, with some structure in the background.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willpower from Supertown Emotes Like Crazy] Reference

The Qilan Shan mountains in that region are also very dry and desert-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Project for the Dendro Truth Squad « Climate Audit] Reference

To sum up again, a good plan for a building in a desert-like climate would have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

As they drove, the geography became less desert-like and the ground more clumpy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The Great Karoo will become drier and more desert-like, particularly in the west.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The departments of Oruro and Potosi in Bolivia have desert-like habitats with sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Andean dry puna] Reference

The site is a dusty, desert-like plain about 40 minutes drive from the capital city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Belanger: Haiti: Life in camps continues - Oxfam staff diary] Reference

What a transformation irrigation makes in the dry and desert-like valleys of the West!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

Cook presents a harsh, desert-like landscape in which the wizard-to-be is born and raised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Walled paths, excavated ruts, alone broke the desert-like prospect, as the burrows of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

The same rules apply to windows in desert-like areas as apply to windows in tropical areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

An even higher number of invertebrates (45+) are endemic to the harsh desert-like conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florida sand pine scrub] Reference

In fact, it is triking the way in which the Tympahncryptocolus fits into its desert-like world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photo Contest Vote: Animal - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

GENERAL INFORMATION: By the shore of the Gulf of California, the climate is dry and desert-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baja California Sur - Overview] Reference

Do you live in arid, desert-like conditions, or are you rarely ever troubled by water restrictions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's the best way to save water during a hosepipe ban?] Reference

Found in the drier regions of the west and south, baobabs are well adapted to desert-like conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands] Reference

She grew up in Burkina Faso in West Africa, a desert-like country where the rains are hard to come by.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 122, 2005] Reference

To walk by the sea at that hour of the morning, and in a place so desert-like and lonesome, struck me with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

I remember thinking, "Gosh, this place is so flat and dry (i.e., desert-like) compared to hilly, lush PV.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWBI to MEXCONNECT] Reference

I guess, you know, when you live in a place like New Mexico, you have desert-like conditions, dry, dry land.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2008] Reference

Picture in your mind a hot, sunny, windy, godforsaken desert-like most of nevada, for instance. wer carole Says.    From Wordnik.com.  [POWER YOUR CAR WITH ALGAE: Algae Biocrude by LiveFuels | Inhabitat] Reference

The route was longer and more desert-like than that farther north across Nevada, but the winter storms were avoided.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

Today, after almost a month in desert-like training at Fort Bliss, Texas, Exercise Southern Bear has officially ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

The only advantage of flat roofs is that they can provide extra living space above buildings in dry, desert-like areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

I guessed correctly that a 1000 pound creature from a dry desert-like planet, didn†™ t know how to swim. ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2007 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

The desert-like camp is home to some 90,000 people, who fled fighting in several countries; among them, 60,000 Sudanese.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 29, 2004] Reference

People have to realize that the planet has been here longer than we have, has been arid and desert-like, and also frozen over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Warming...] Reference

Unusually for desert-like Baja, the mountain scenery in this area is greatly enhanced by a higher rainfall and permanent streams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Part one - La Paz and El Triunfo: from beaches and baskets to mines, music and marine park] Reference

We do what we have to do to live here on earth- and California is a desert and desert-like in most places after all with droughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underwater in the Sierra Nevadas « Climate Audit] Reference

Unusually for desert-like Baja, the mountain scenery near El Triunfo is greatly enhanced by a higher rainfall and permanent streams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unusually for desert-like Baja, the mountain scenery near El Triunfo is greatly enhanced by a higher rainfall and permanent streams. In the rainy season these can swell suddenly and dramatically. The arroyo scenery around San Bartolo is about as good as it gets. Photo by Marisa Burton] Reference

The ecoregion exhibits more desert-like vegetation in southeastern Oregon, where elevation is considerably higher and precipitation lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snake-Columbia shrub steppe] Reference