A vast and mostly undeveloped sagebrush steppe, the western corner of the state is carved by mountain ranges and parched valleys.

The presumption that the road to health lies through the long, parched valley of abstinence has always suited our simple American souls.

Druss had reached the brow of the hill and gazed down into a parched valley.

Nestled in a parched valley, El Cajon drew its first Iraqi settlers half a century ago because of the resemblance it bore to their homeland.

There are six or seven hearty laughs in "Gun-Shy," but between the occasional peaks come too many parched valleys.

His generous offering to her was reciprocated with generous rainfall to the parched valley and in turn a heiau was built in her honor.

Littered Fairways Some come with the terrain, a parched valley of undulating hills that could hardly support a herd of goats, much less a finely groomed golf course.

Subterranean waters bubbled up to flood the parched valley, and the newborn sea spread wide until it became an ocean.

She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley.

The parched, rocky valleys near the forts were randomly searched by Drasnian pikemen and platoons of legionnaires.