The riverbed clay was yellowish, sun-blasted and cracked in rivulets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

I looked into the deep and shadowed clefts and at the sun-blasted ridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

"First we have to reach them, " Simna observed, noting the sun-blasted desolation that lay between.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

They swooped low over the mountain, but nothing was visible other than the trees and sun-blasted rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

The whole place is dead dry grass, sun-blasted dirt, and a few scrub oaks; right next to millions of gallons of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americana] Reference

True to his word, the narrow wadi soon expanded into a sun-blasted, relatively gravel-free promenade that promised easy access to wherever it led.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]

As the Palestinian leader arrived home from Camp David last week, a sweaty crowd of about 4,000 cheered him in the sun-blasted square of Gaza City.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind The Breakdown] Reference

He crossed the Merciful Prayer bridge, passed under the arch of the inner wall, and came out into the sun-blasted citadel square, where no one walked at midday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Gate] Reference

There were no caves in the rocks, but they found a place between two great sun-blasted whitish gray stones that was large enough to accommodate both of them side by side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]

Then it disappeared over the crest of a slope, which was fairly open, with little cover for a Hyksosian ambush, just a few clumps of rock and scattered sun-blasted thorn trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

On the sun-blasted terrace of the Century City mall it was a delightful little puff, in the later subzero chill of the movies it was an equally compelling bone-dry woody amber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

The kingdom had not enough people, not enough land - and much of the land it did have was sun-blasted desert, in which thornbushes and lizards and camels might flourish but nothing else did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers of the Darkness]

While walking along a sun-blasted street in Culiacán, in Sinaloa, the cardboard of my notebook damp with sweat, Inoticed a classroom of children through the rusted grillwork in a brick wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Moving North] Reference

This much is undeniable though, as one walks through cobbled plazas and toppled towers, and past sun-blasted walls: cities, dazzling in their day, arose suddenly in the desert, prospered, and then collapsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Ward: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West] Reference

He surmounted the ridge, to find the cañon opening in a tremendous gap, and to see down, far down, a glittering, sun-blasted slope merging into a deep, black gulch where a red river swept and chafed and roared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Even in springtime, Bakersfield looks sun-blasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

Hague, 52, doing a sun-blasted bit of masonry work in the fierce heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference

Yet the band's sun-blasted indie also has some more unexpected sonic wrinkles.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference

I guess it's just hotter on a sun-blasted sand dune than it is beside a corral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from union-bulletin.com] Reference

Yuma to the Little Colorado had been to him an endless waste of wind-scoured, sun-blasted barrenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Last Man] Reference

The sun-blasted days are a startling contrast to the dark nights where campfires dot the desolate horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joystiq] Reference

People in the region have few economic options, apart from manual labor in sun-blasted fields, says game warden James.    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

Wind-burned and sun-blasted, we climbed the steps, found the showers and fell into the embrace of this wood and glass pavilion.    From Wordnik.com.  [canada.com Top Stories] Reference

Once a sun-blasted village of pearl fishers on the Gulf, Dubai has, in the past few decades, feverishly grown into a glitzy city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

But there's that José who knows every foot of the dry-spot clean to the Ortez -- and he knows every hoss-thief in this sun-blasted country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ridin' Kid from Powder River] Reference

Once a sun-blasted village of pearl fishers on the Persian Gulf, Dubai has, in the past few decades, feverishly grown into a glitzy city of 1.2 million.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Smothering clouds drenched the state for a second day Saturday, pushing already-brimming rivers higher while providing sun-blasted lawns a welcome respite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Its 188 acres, slanting away from Raley Field, are a sun-blasted swath of barren earth and railroad spurs that were once home to grain silos and heavy industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [SacBee -- Latest News] Reference

The landscape in which the rebels fight is a vast unforgiving expanse of sun-blasted sand, thorn and denuded shrubs where the heat allows few errors of judgment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Australian | News |] Reference

Instead of drawing water from the lake, she now scrapes soil from its cracked bed in the hope that the nutrients can replenish the earth on her sun-blasted farmland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Progress] Reference

Reiner works his charm over Damon, who becomes, effectively, his lackey as they traipse around the sun-blasted mountains; it takes great strength for him to break away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Only thorny desert weeds grow here now, but the checkerboard of low dirt irrigation ridges stretching for kilometres suggests that, given water, this sun-blasted land can bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleans.ca] Reference

The Atrium Zenon Apartments is an anonymous cube of whitewashed concrete studded with balconies in the sun-blasted centre of Larnaca, the beach resort town on the south coast of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

I am sitting on the sun-blasted South Rim of the Grand Canyon, tracking condors through binoculars and trying to read the numbers on their wing tags as they dip and wobble above and below me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

On a sun-blasted Tuesday morning in the last weeks of 2008, four people pedal camouflage-painted bikes toward NW 61st Street and 13th Place, one of the busiest intersections for Liberty City's booming drug trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miami New Times | Complete Issue] Reference

Balad Air Base is a sun-blasted 15-square-mile expanse of concrete, crushed stone, and sand about an hour’s drive north of Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ploy] Reference

Apart from the bold landscaping choice of a chain-link fence around some struggling, sun-blasted grass, there wasn’t much to recommend the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thin Air] Reference