Sentence examples for huge desert from inspiring English sources

In the 1980s, there were high hopes for the Tarim Basin, a huge desert north of Tibet.

Seen from the air, its vast plains, sometimes the colour of dried blood, more often tawny like a lion's skin, may seem to be one huge desert.

Together they live in uneasy conjugality in a huge desert mansion crawling with bush babies, Barbary doves, aracaris and a shy albino leopard named Samson.

They were well-armed after returning from fighting for their long-term supporter Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, and one key figure had fallen under the spell of Islamic radicals; soon, moderates were forced aside and the huge desert areas fell under the control of fundamentalists.

Approximately 190 to 136 million years ago in the Jurassic the Colorado Plateau area's climate increasingly became arid until 150,000 square miles (388,000 km²) of western North America became a huge desert, not unlike the modern Sahara.

Research teams at the University of Guelph in Ontario are looking at durable crops like barley, the Mars Society in Utah is trying to replicate Mars conditions in a huge desert greenhouse and there are universities all over the world looking at vertical garden design that could be applied in space.

It is almost as big as Australia, and with its huge deserts, dense mountains and isolated cities, is about as hospitable as Australia's Outback region.

In Minqin in the north-west, where two huge deserts are slowly meeting, the cost of tree-planting has risen more than tenfold since the 1980s, and trees are dying, or growing stunted.

"Huge deserts, long straight roads, the Pacific Highway, rich rolling hills, snowy mountains – we've taken all those geographical cues and crammed them together in one location," says Webster. "Top Gear did a piece on the Transfagarasan Highway in Romania.

The Beijing government has poured billions of dollars in recent years into developing Xinjiang, a sparsely settled land of towering mountains and huge deserts that is rich in oil and minerals.

But the mine has long been closed, and aside from its huge deserted open pit, the only reminder of a booming past is the large and quite anatomically correct statue known as "Iron Man" in the the town park.