Sentence Examples

1. The occasional dead-looking cactus or a random cairn of stones did little to break up the flat wilderness.
2. Six ROGER Villegas owned Cactus Court, which he called the final remnant of his heritage as the descendant of Spanish land grant nobility.
3. After a stop at home to shower and shave, when he left Cactus Court he peered at the cars up and down the street, a habit he had fallen into this past week.
4. For a while I drive by this odd combination of cactus and eucalypt, set in the picón against the backdrop of the bare mountains, a landscape so strange I almost forget who I am.
5. Then the village gives way to yet more fields of prickly pear, and I see the windmill of the cactus garden up ahead, and I wonder how anything bad could ever happen in such a sublime and tranquil place as this.
6. I even forgot my discomfort momentarily when I caught sight of my first cactus.
7. In Cactus Court, Tom failed to mind his steps and brushed too close to a cholla.
8. Last summer, following the heat-wave massacre of the grass that bordered the walkway between the two rows of cottages, he planted more cactus.
9. Like dozens of other skyscrapers around it, the Empire State had been cut in half like a broken saguaro cactus, leaving only the nubs of uneven girders sticking up above lower ragged concrete floors and shell.
10. On entering the village, I snatch glances at the flat fields of cactus flanking the road, interspersed with farmhouses and villas.