desert
Example Sentences
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Deep in the desert of Niger, scientists have unearthed an unknown species of dinosaur, a giant fissvery of its kind in more than a century.
From Barron's
The new plan had a “desert opera” theme.
After a few days of argument, these men took some supplies, deserted the Advance, and set off across the ice to try to save themselves.
From Literature
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The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.
The sun was beginning to set as we drove back to the paramedic base, and a city that once came alive at night, would soon be deserted.
From BBC
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