desert

Example Sentences

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But there he was, ready to race in the desert, within striking distance of his two McLaren rivals—and Verstappen wanted to remind them why.

From The Wall Street Journal

Migrants wait under the scorching sun of the Atacama desert in Chile to cross the border into Peru.

From Barron's

Along Chile's desert border with Peru, dozens of undocumented migrants line up under the hot sun to try to seek a way out of the country.

From Barron's

High glaciers give it vital water reserves, a rarity in Central Asia, which is predominantly a desert region thousands of miles from the sea.

From Barron's

Indeed, so much of Abha, the capital of the southwestern province of Asir, seems a world away — and two dozen degrees cooler — from the scorching desert that dominates Western notions of the kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times