sere

Example Sentences

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A highlight of the book is a repeat trip to Central California’s Carrizo Plain, first during a drought, silenced by its sere magnificence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

Indeed, the opening image of “Bardo” suggests that Iñárritu has created “Birdman 2.0,” as a man, seen only as his shadow, repeatedly takes flight over a sere desert landscape.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022

The movie’s depictions of landscapes both sere and fertile, and its all-but-palpable portrayals of isolation, have echoes of the best work of Werner Herzog and Lucrecia Martel.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

The landscape is dry and sere, but a ribbon of green shrubs and trees flourishes along the creek.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2021

But he looked at her with some strange remorse, and he saw that she had grown thin and her skin was sere and yellow.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck