Sentence examples for piece of desert from inspiring English sources

The now former Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone was a 2,720 square-mile, lozenge-shaped piece of desert, the eastern corner of which touched Kuwait's westernmost point [9].

Here in this extraordinary piece of desert is where the fate of world security in the early 21st century is going to be decided".

An elongated trapezoid on the map, as poorly demarcated as it is sparsely populated, you could call this 44,000 square-mile piece of desert the world's largest sandbox.

The marines focused their early fire on an elevated piece of desert known as Safwan Hill near the Iraqi border town of the same name, which was being defended by the Iraq 51st Mechanized Division.

When Tony Blair first came here in 2006, he said the fate of the world's security would be decided in this extraordinary piece of desert.

Dailey would call his piece of desert Estrella Vista.

What happened was that a piece of empty desert which had been under the control of the British Mandate (who got it after the Ottoman Empire fell apart) was awarded to the Jewish state.

For the purchase of a bottle for a few dollars and a quick lesson in shaping a sand creation, visitors can spend an absorbing hour creating a piece of the "desert" to bring home.

One year ago, this 18-acre campus built with $10 million of American taxpayer money was another piece of Jordan Valley desert, and Palestinian guardsmen slept on flea-bitten mattresses and took meals on their laps.

They have no money — having come from traditional villages, where money is not commonly used — and look for a place in the slums, a marsh, a quagmire, a piece of barren desert, some terrible plot, usually designated by the municipal authorities for these new arrivals to the city.

The Bold Prediction Despite ongoing instability in Baghdad, speculative real estate investors will flock to the city in droves, hoping to grab a small piece of the desert.