Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently.

A single vast desert, so bleak as to make the Thar seem an oasis.

The bleakest desert, even the forbidding land about the two pillars, will flourish like a garden if only water can be got to it.

The bleakest desert in the world sounds like paradise to me, at the moment.

The months until she saw him again had been a desert more bleak than any in North Africa.

Whatever water the "bay" held lay secret beneath the dunes of snow, a frozen desert, bleak and uninviting.

Belgarath looked around at the high, bleak desert.

He looked below and now they were crossing a bleak yellow and brown desert.

The piece opens with a panning shot across a bleak desert, the Sun low over a mountain range on the horizon.

The sky was a washed-out pale blue, the desert bleak and empty in every direction.