We should now have a very bleak and bare countryside.

Somehow, the city itself resembled a great enfolding cloak that carried protection in its folds; but the loneliness of the vast, bleak countryside created terrors of its own.

Feeling apprehension, Constable Odo scanned the bleak surrounding countryside for someplace to hide; he found nothing.

He also described the whole area as bleak countryside, sparsely wooded, rough and hilly and weather harsh.

He gazed silently at the bleak countryside on the way back to the liaison center, ignoring the driver's attempts at conversation.

I looked around the bleak, unending countryside.

We set off to see the bleak countryside.

And yet it cannot be denied that the prosperity of the whole poor, bleak countryside depends upon his presence.

As it does in Lebanon and elsewhere, Iran has lavished social assistance programs on Azerbaijan, especially in the bleak countryside.

Nothing but barren countryside, spread out ugly and bleak.