Something odd about them, or about the lighting, or just their presence on a lifeless desert.

Another day in the middle of this gray, lifeless desert," she said sourly.

Heard in that planetary pit beneath a lifeless desert it astonished - and shocked.

The formerly lush garden world was burned and blasted, left mostly a lifeless desert.

Later discoveries had been found in caves or mountaintops or lifeless deserts.

He is now stranded on V9-Gamma for the rest of his life, completely alone in the barren, lifeless deserts.

Nothing grew within the bounds of the straight strip of lifeless desert, whether going over rock or sandy ground.

The lifeless desert still stretched about him.

The indoor space faced by the three seated people disappeared; before them they saw the desert, utterly lifeless.

Tens of billions to go to a cold, lifeless desert?