Sentence examples for great deserts from inspiring English sources

Across the world's great deserts, a mysterious sheen has been found on boulders and rock faces.

We flew across the Dasht-e-Kavir, one of the two great deserts in Iran.

"I seem to have crammed most of my men into the early part of my life, and then there were great deserts of nobody at all except flings".

Perennial grasses, mosses, and lichens also grow on the steppe, and drought-resistant species are common in the south, where the sequence continues in Kazakhstan through dry steppe and semidesert to the great deserts of Central Asia.

But its geographical metastasis – particularly across the great deserts of eastern Syria and western Iraq and into north Africa – gives them a resilience and a global appeal we have not seen before.

After spending time with my nomadic relatives in Western Sahara and with Tuareg nomads in Mali, she thought I should see another part of Africa with great deserts, Namibia.

We wouldn't exactly be following in the footsteps of Edward Abbey, the great Desert Solitaire, but dogging greatness is thankless work anyway.

Arabian Desert, great desert region of extreme southwestern Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula.

Excluding isolated Siwa, the four eastern oases, together with Al-Fayyūm in the north, form a great desert arc.

"It was in Agadez that I was told that the great desert was still ahead of me," Mr. Bekina said.

Less than four years later, in the fall of 1862, McCarran found himself riding back into the great desert.