Sahara

Example Sentences

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Morocco considers Western Sahara to be part of its sovereign territory, calling it its "southern provinces".

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Sprawling along a windswept peninsula where the Sahara meets the Atlantic, the city of Dakhla certainly looked attractive.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Western Sahara was a Spanish colony from 1884 to 1976.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

The fictional movie he’s making looks stiff, a period epic about Spain’s colonialist withdrawal from the Sahara in the 1930s, which doubles as a metaphor for the father’s destructive absence from his now-adult child’s life.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

On the other hand, copper smelting had been going on in the West African Sahara and Sahel since at least 2000 B.C.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond