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oasis

Definition for oasis

noun as in spring

Strong matches

fountain, well, wellspring

Weak match

watering hole

noun as in refuge

Strongest matches

haven, sanctuary

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Example Sentences

Ribbon Falls, a sacred site of the Zuni people, is an incredible green oasis in the sea of red.

Even though people aren’t on the go, the home used to be an oasis.

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All these inventions allowed small oases of civilization to be wrested from a natural wilderness that seemed endless.

They’re basically like oases — these islands in the middle of a desert of sand.

Most galling of all, Gow said, is the prospect that his ranch, his oasis, could suddenly become a thruway for construction and maintenance, an avenue for aerial surveillance and regular pesticide spraying that he would have no control over.

You might be surprised to hear that hidden in Tampa, Florida is a food oasis of the Cuban persuasion.

The pop-punk of Green Day, the Britpop of Oasis, the alternative arena rock of Weezer.

And, as it turns out, a necessary zen oasis from the deafening screams of tweenage girls as this Austin Mahone character performs.

Even so, in the turbulent Middle East of the Arab Spring Lebanon has been an oasis of calm and relative affluence.

They rushed out in bathrobes and slippers, their blissful oasis near a suburban mall suddenly transformed into a horror scene.

A trick like this—a generosity so distinct as this—is a real oasis in the ecclesiastical desert.

We now enter the Palais Royal, that strange white and green oasis into which it is so simple never to stray.

Now I was filled with the desire to lie here in this “oasis” and live at ease and sniff the clean fragrance of mountain plants.

He is the one refreshing oasis in the desert wilderness of the Classical school.

It would be an oasis in this desert—that Express car; but lo!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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