desert-like

A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men aboard were able to swim to a small, desert-like island.

The expansion of desert like conditions into areas where they did not previously exist is called desertification.

in their absence, he noted, the land was turned into desert, like the bones of a wasted body.

Soft, soft hisses the desert, like the lapping of the ocean against the pebbles of the beach.

In an endless desert, like an oasis. . .

Tens of thousands of forest dwellers were left stranded after rivers in the region faded into desert-like sandbanks.

It is estimated that more than 40 per cent of the land on the earth's surface is desert or desert-like.

It is true that mites need humid conditions to thrive and cannot survive in very dry (desert like) conditions.

This is a desert-like place. You really have no place to go.

Where there were once lush forests, many places today are desert-like.

In China, the land is overgrazed causing an ongoing increase of desert like wasteland and dust bowls.

Plant more trees in cities near desert like Beijing to prevent the intrusion of sandstorm.

It is the strangest and most fantastic city in America, glittering in the middle of the desert like a neon mirage.

One area is dry and desert-like.

Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?