Sentence examples for expanses of desert from inspiring English sources
Major highways run north-south, with towns separated by expanses of desert.
Spanning out in all directions are countless cities, villages, rivers and vast expanses of desert.
Opened in 1936, it has kept large expanses of desert landscaping and the Southwestern charm of its adobe-style buildings.
The open expanses of desert, pocked with otherworldly, towering rock formations, recall Martian landscapes as photographed by NASA.
Under a startlingly thin layer of atmosphere, vast expanses of desert ceded to forests that gave way to the oceans that make up 70 percent of Earth's surface.
They also cite increased efforts by Palestinian militant groups emanating from Gaza, as well as global jihadi cells, to use the vast expanses of desert as a staging ground for a new front against Israel.
Along the way, the driver will travel vast expanses of deserted open road, but will also have to negotiate several congested metropolitan areas.
This expanse of desert scrub has been keeping smugglers safe since the time Europeans were emerging from their caves.
An expanse of desert about the size of New Mexico at the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, Oman, population three million, is safe and friendly, its roads beautiful and empty.
By 4 p.m., the harbor was barely visible in the distance, a sprawl of warehouses and cranes rising from where the flat expanse of desert met the sea.
