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Example sentences for "sandy desert"

  • But all this is wanting in a journey through a sandy desert.

  • Such a change is doubly grateful to one who has been travelling so long through the barren, sandy desert.

  • Our path lay through a sandy desert, about two miles in breadth, running parallel with the mountain-range from Saida to Beyrout.

  • Leaving Riad, they passed through Yemama, and across a strip of sandy desert to El Hasa where Palgrave found himself in more congenial surroundings.

  • Dawasir, it runs eastward till it disappears in the belt of sandy desert 100 m.

  • East of Nejd a strip of sandy desert 50 m.

  • It was a plain of more than sixty miles, which extended from the hills of Carrhae to the Euphrates; a smooth and barren surface of sandy desert, without a hillock, without a tree, and without a spring of fresh water.

  • From Cyrene to the ocean, the coast of Africa extends above fifteen hundred miles; yet so closely is it pressed between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, or sandy desert, that its breadth seldom exceeds fourscore or a hundred miles.

  • A sandy desert, alike destitute of wood and water, skirts along the doubtful confine of Syria, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea.

  • After passing by the end of the Sea of Azov they went in an easterly direction and crossed a sandy desert on which neither tree nor stone was visible.

  • They left Khan-tcheou, and after riding for twelve days they reached the borders of a sandy desert, and entered the city of Etzina.

  • The whole of this region consists of sandy desert, intersected by ranges of rocky hills, except where a stream flows down from the mountains to the sea, and forms an oasis of verdure and fertility.

  • The rest of the coast is a sandy desert, and few rivers fall into the sea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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