Sentence examples for strip of desert from inspiring English sources

Spain also received a strip of desert land in the southwest, known as Tarfaya, adjoining Spanish Sahara.

— The roads are forlorn in this strip of desert 20 minutes east of La Quinta, a warm-weather hideaway frequented by affluent snowbirds and press-shy celebrities.

They all converged on a narrow strip of desert, sometimes less than 10 miles wide, between the Andes and the sea.

Since at least 1947, when Bugsy Siegel bet that a strip of desert highway could become a resort destination, Las Vegas has been a place of perpetual reinvention.

Maybe Termites Termites emerged as the likely makers of "fairy circles," the barren red spots that dot a narrow strip of desert from Angola to Namibia to South Africa.

A strip of desert near Aswan city is one of the last remaining areas of the once thriving Nubian empire in southern Egypt, but its descendants are banned from setting foot there.

LAS VEGAS — Michael Hutchings bet it all when he built his 3,300-square-foot 3,300-square-foot 3,300-square-footn dreamt gazing west toward thomeas Vegas Strip.

LAS VEGAS - Miles away from the glamour of the Las Vegas Strip, past foreclosed homes and dusty tracts of desert, the Wall Street bond powerhouse Cantor Fitzgerald has placed millions of dollars of its own money on the table.

The following morning, we pulled back the curtains and got our first glimpse of the Nile with its green strip of fertile land beyond, then desert rising to the rocky peaks that hide the Valley of the Kings.

The most fierce fighting has been in northern Helmand's Sangin valley, a fertile strip of land cut through the desert that is home to hundreds of small poppy farms.

A balloon ride at dawn reveals not only the anachronistically modern Temple of Hatshepsut - the only female Pharoah - like a creation of Albert Speer in the wilderness; but also age-old morning rituals along the fertile strip of the Nile, surrounded by desert as far as the eye can see.