desert
Example Sentences
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"US Central Command has admitted to using PrSM in strikes from the desert of an unnamed Gulf country against Iran in the early phases of the conflict," it noted.
From BBC
Dubai’s sprawling gold market is deserted, in part because buyers from abroad no longer come, and in part because of dramatic fluctuations in gold prices.
Today, Mars is known as a cold, dry desert, but its surface tells a very different story.
From Science Daily
An isolated desert city 500 miles from the coast, Yazd is a challenging target for the U.S. and Israel.
Saudi Arabia abruptly canceled two large construction contracts at one of the most ambitious projects in the world, scuttling plans to bring skiing to the desert kingdom.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.