burned-over

The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb.

Tragedy and Comedy of Life William Meyers 2011

The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb.

Tragedy and Comedy of Life William Meyers 2011

As the great revival movement surged outward, and its missionary campaigns and camp meetings, its “personal decisions for Christ,” became all the rage from the “burned-over district” of western New York State down through the Appalachians and across the South, Jackson found ready support for a rekindled spirit of American chosenness.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

As the great revival movement surged outward, and its missionary campaigns and camp meetings, its “personal decisions for Christ,” became all the rage from the “burned-over district” of western New York State down through the Appalachians and across the South, Jackson found ready support for a rekindled spirit of American chosenness.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

As the great revival movement surged outward, and its missionary campaigns and camp meetings, its “personal decisions for Christ,” became all the rage from the “burned-over district” of western New York State down through the Appalachians and across the South, Jackson found ready support for a rekindled spirit of American chosenness.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

In his seminal book on the Pacific Northwest, The Good Rain, New York Times writer Timothy Egan described the city thusly: "Surrounded by thick stumps, burned-over land and eroded hillsides, Forks is to the Olympic Peninsula what a butt rash is to Venus."

Chris Gray Faust: Transformed by Twilight: Forks, Washington Chris Gray Faust 2010

We might say that the Bay area had become, for him, a burned-over district. 89 It was time for the group that had matured on the road to develop a community of their own, in which they could organize work, marriage, and family life around the agreements.

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

Pine trees are often the pioneer woody species that flourish in burned-over areas or on abandoned arable land.

Laurentian Mixed Forest Province (Bailey) 2009

As a result, said Lee McAtee, deputy director of the lab's environmental safety division, the burned-over topsoil will not absorb the torrential downpours that are typical in August, setting up a "very significant" risk of flash flooding in the canyons on the reservation.

The Plagues Of Los Alamos 2008

The only person left in my purview (and indeed the town, which had been burned-over, Second Great Awakening-style, by hundreds of kids now growing desperate and moving far beyond their home turf) was this lady who lived on Forest Avenue who was notoriously mean and rumored to be harboring untold wealth.

Dachshund Aficionado, january issue, p.37 2008