7 sentences with 'desert'
Example sentences and phrases with the word desert and other words derived from it.
• « The Sinai Peninsula, which divides Egypt from present-day Palestine and Israel, is about 120 kilometres of desert. »
• « Around 280, Antony sold his possessions and withdrew into the desert to contemplate the divine, avoiding all worldly goods in imitation of Christ's poverty. »
• « Thousands followed Anthony's example, retreating into the desert. These early monks were called anchorites: hermits who lived in the deserts, forests or mountains far from the temptations of a normal social existence (though they had to live close enough to civilisation for the food donations that kept them alive). »
• « Europeans knew that these products originated somewhere in the Sahara desert, but could not access their sources directly. »
• « He did not find it easy to adapt to Garissa's desert climate and its people. "It was terrible. I felt isolated, had difficulty with the language and was not used to the poor sanitary conditions, not to mention the horror of the war wounded," he recalls. "Even so, after only a month in my country, I couldn't wait to go back. »
• « The first summer I spent in the Arizona desert, I thought I'd end up roasting. In that 45°C temperature, I was close to dying doing such simple tasks as gardening, tending to my children and shopping. »