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Example sentences for "verdureless"

Lexicographically close words:
verdigris; verditer; verdomde; verdure; verdured; verdurous; vere; veree; verelie; verely
  1. On their port, near at hand, lay the rocky, verdureless Button Islands, and far to the southward rose the rugged, barren peaks of the Torngaek Mountains in northeastern Labrador.

  2. So far as they could discover, in the dense fog, which enshrouded land as well as sea, they were stranded upon a desolate, verdureless coast.

  3. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.

  4. Nothing but savage, awful precipices of naked granite, snowy fields, and verdureless wastes!

  5. So I started my caravan at daybreak, to get the water at its lowest, and ascended the gorge, which is an absolutely verdureless rift in mountains of most brilliant and fantastic stratification.

  6. Huge red chasms with glacier-fed torrents, occasional snowfields, intense solar heat radiating from dry and verdureless rock, a ravine so steep .

  7. For the first half hour, the water was smooth and swift, sweeping between walls that were abrupt and verdureless and offered not so much as a finger hold for a landing place.

  8. The decayed and verdureless branches, clustered around its centre, tell also that the process of decay has been progressing for a longer span of time than is permitted in the life of mortals.

  9. Far away across the Wonsits Tiravu rose the red cliff land up and up to the eastern sky; behind was the great bulk of Trumbull, together with scores of the smooth, verdureless heaps of volcanic cinders.

  10. The bluest of cloudless skies bent over the landscape; the verdureless rocks glistened in the light of the sun, as if they had recently been subjected to a furnace heat instead of being drenched by a flood.

  11. Verdureless mountains of fantastic shapes rose into the cloudless sky on every hand.

  12. It presents the same peculiar aspect of Persian scenery nearly everywhere-a general verdureless and unproductive country, with the barren surface here and there relieved by small oases of cultivated fields and orchards.

  13. Ascending from this interesting locality my road now traverses a dreary, monotonous district of whitish, sun-blistered hills, water-less and verdureless for fourteen miles.

  14. For more than half the year, from October to May, it is comparatively a verdureless and flowerless land, dark with furze and grey with rocks and heather, splashed with brown-red of dead bracken.

  15. These desert storms take up from the verdureless earth great quantities of sand and other fine débris, which often so clouds the air as to bring the darkness of night at midday.

  16. Yet where winds blow over verdureless surfaces the effect of the sand which they sweep before them is often considerable.

  17. Beyond lay hills even more barren and verdureless than those we had crossed.

  18. Situated where it can derive the most benefit from these streams is the village of Sherifabad, and beyond Sherifabad stretches a verdureless waste to Aivan-i-Kaif.

  19. Baku looks the inartistic, business-like place it is, occupying the base of brown, verdureless hills.

  20. Very seldom does one see green vegetation mingling familiarly with the blue water of the sea--there is usually a strip of sand or other verdureless shore--but one sees it at lovely Singapore.

  21. At other points were gray, verdureless slopes and rocky buttes, or saline mud-flats that looked like the old bed of some ancient sea.

  22. After a dozen miles the country develops into barren wastes, as dreary and verdureless as the deserts of Seistan.

  23. A trail, that is only here and there to be made out, follows a southeasternly course down a verdureless tract of country strewn with rocks and bowlders and furrowed by the rushing waters of torrents now dried up.

  24. Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verdureless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.