Sentences with phrase «dry as a desert»

I added a tad more butter and more honey and they're still dry as the desert!

In fact, I am dry as the desert and in need of an oasis of patience.

But after about a week on Atkins I had a horrible day, I felt like I was as dry as a desert inside, I felt like a something was crushing me from inside, despite drinking plenty water.

Store your phone, camera and money whilst on the beach or out in the water and they'll stay dry as a desert.

I've seen this place completely flooded for months on end, I've seen it dry as a desert, couple of years of complete crop loss, the only way to get drinking water is to truck it in (unless you can stand heavy sulfur smell).

Not exact matches

VENTURA, Calif. — California Governor Jerry Brown will survey the destruction of the state's devastating wildfires on Saturday, as firefighters rushed to contain the blazes before dry desert winds were expected to intensify.

His research is partly inspired by a type of beetle found in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, which collects moisture from the seemingly dry air on its shell and drinks the condensed water as it rolls into its mouth.

In fact, the borders of Israel are commonly referred to as the Green Line which separates the dry desert lands of the Arab nations with the blossoming land of the Jewish people in Israel.

It's not exactly cheery viewing, as most of the animation involves deforestation, drying rivers and retreating glaciers, but you also see the irrigation of deserts in the Middle East and just the onward march of humanity in general.

Isaiah describes a desert climate dry and barren as the northern Wyoming plains.

It can be painted perhaps, as Georgia O'Keeffe learned, giving a spare beauty to the dry bones of the New Mexican desert she had come to love.

These little meatloaf muffins are a tasty alternative to those dry - as - the - desert chicken breasts, while still being a lean protein option.

Talks about Aubameyang are as dry as the Sahara desert.

If you live in a dry or desert location, diapers may dry out quickly and the air circulation is not nearly as important as it is in a humid location.

Elsewhere many smaller ice sheets and glaciers grew, vast areas turned into tundra and deserts expanded as the planet became drier.

At the microscopic scale, the hairy, moist surface of your armpits is as different from the smooth, dry skin of your forearms as a rainforest is to a desert.

The Apollo missions painted a picture of the moon as a bone - dry desert.

The soil from deserts and dry lands is key to the health of the world's oceans, as it is the most important source of iron and other nutrients.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

To this end it carries out research in the fields of water resources and desert soils; animal and poultry production; ecology and dry land agriculture, as well as socioeconomic studies.

But in dry areas — his is the driest non-polar desert in the world — the difference can be extensive, as it is in this case.

Deserts are expected to become drier and windier, and stronger and bigger dust devils (such as the Chilean gravel devils) may form.

At an altitude of about 5,200 meters on the Chajnantor Plateau, a Mars - like red expanse in Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world, ALMA's matching antennas swivel in unison as observers collect light from cosmic objects.

According to researchers studying this elusive mammal, sometimes classed as one of the «Shy 5,» in South Africa's Kalahari Desert, aardvarks prove to be highly susceptible to the warmer and drier climates that are predicted for the western parts of southern Africa, in the future.

As incongruous as it may sound, a trip to Nevada's bone - dry Black Rock desert is what got Patri Friedman thinking about a political utopia in the middle of the oceaAs incongruous as it may sound, a trip to Nevada's bone - dry Black Rock desert is what got Patri Friedman thinking about a political utopia in the middle of the oceaas it may sound, a trip to Nevada's bone - dry Black Rock desert is what got Patri Friedman thinking about a political utopia in the middle of the ocean.

As I stand there looking at the giants, I imagine what else is out there, buried or surfacing among the sandy soil and dry rocks of the cold and windy Gobi Desert.

If the species originated in sub-Saharan Africa around 200,000 years ago as was thought, the bone - dry Sahara Desert could have been a formidable barrier to migration out of the motherland.

«If they move another two to three degrees poleward in this century, very dry areas such as the Sahara Desert could nudge farther toward the pole, perhaps by a few hundred miles.»

But as the water dried up and the area turned to desert, the pupfish became isolated in a smattering of springs.

When biologists discovered that other desert mammals, such as camels, also conserve water in this way, they concluded that maxilloturbinals had evolved specifically as an adaptation to life in dry places.

In reality, on - the - ground investigations are beginning to show that wet and dry phases may show north - to - south timing differences across the Levant and the Syro - Arabian Desert, as well as latitudinal variations of wet conditions between basins, implying more complicated demographic processes of expansion, contraction and extinction [64].

Ice - Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up by Geoffrey Lean May 7, 2006 The Independent / UK

Mars is often referred to as a desert world, being bone - dry for the most part, with dust and sand blanketing most of the surface.

The Atacama Desert is considered as one of the driest areas in the world with the annual rainfall below 100 mm.For travelling from Japan, it takes 40 hours to get to the ALMA site in Chile including connection time.

As someone who grew up primarily in a desert environment, I'm looking forward to some dry, arid heat and blazing, pink sunsets (god, I miss those sunsets!).

The plot was as dry as the Sahara desert, the graphics were weak, and the controls were downright comical.

Returning to this desert - dry whimsical world of misfits, along with Ryan, Posey, and Aiken, is James Urbaniak as garbage - man - turned - poet - laureate Simon Grim, who steals every scene he's in with his succinct and deadliest deadpan delivery of Hartley's epigrammatic dialogue.

Stanton's final role salutes him as the very picture of flinty, desert - dried masculinity — exactly the kind of decent but plain - spoken mysterious loner many of his fans would like to remember him as.

«From scorching deserts to frozen peaks, humid swamp and dry heat, the world of Conan Exiles is a large and hostile world where only the strongest will survive,» begins the narrator in this brand - new video showing the journey players will take as they strive to survive the savage lands of Conan the Barbarian.

But the truth is I'm cool as a cucumber in this sudden storm, and it has nothing to do with the dry desert air in the canyon passes above Palm Springs.

The 550 - mile (885 - km) race offers a variety of rough terrain, from salty desert wallows, to dry lake beds and mountain passes as high as 8,000 ft (2,438 meters) above sea level.

They only get as far as a deserted motel in Nebraska, next to a dried - up reservoir before things start looking bad.

They thrive in dry desert conditions and at a temperature of 80 ° to 90 ° F. Avoid sand for bedding because it can lead to intestinal impactions, especially in juveniles which swallow a lot of substrate as they strike out at prey.

Cambell's dwarf hamsters were found in dry mountainous areas, such as the Altay mountains in Mongolia, whereas Roborovski's hamster was discovered in the Gobi Desert.

We have the following: Delilah - female black pug (name just seemed to fit her) Sahara - female black Chinese crested (hairless)- rescued her and she had terribly dry and infected skin from neglect, named her since her skin was as dry as the Sahara desert Maxwell - male Yorkshire terrier (name just popped into my head, along with Xavier - my mom preferred Maxwell) Jingles - female tan chihuahua (mom chose name - no clue why) Jangles - same as Jingles (are sisters)

Needless to say, the dry desert air is optimal for long - distance viewing, and as we reached peak altitude, the entire Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area came into full view, and a quiet serenity came over the entire basket, with the silence being broken only by the occasional whooosh of the flame - thrower and the beep of a camera.

One of the world's driest deserts, the Kara Kum Desert, covers around 80 percent of this country and you will see cities such as Merv and the capital Ashgabat looming from the sand as you journey into the country.

As your sit confidently on your camel, reins in hands, through the rise and fall of straw - coloured dunes in the Taklimakan Desert, the wind dries your perspiration and carries the tinkle of camel bells.

New Starting Biomes: When starting a new game, players can now choose from a lush grassland, a bone - dry desert, or a frozen tundra as their starting world.

Different areas, such as the fast - paced Zoomtown, the dry sands of Desert Drift, and the icy Arctic Rim all deliver high speed thrills in different, dazzling environments.