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Example sentences for: desert

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Only modern technology could have turned this former patch of desert into one of the world’s most flourishing metropolises.
5 million to dredge Marina del Rey harbor, $600,000 to remove burros from the desert, $50,000 for a mural in Twentynine Palms, $100,000 to build an international trade center in Tulare County, and $50 million to reinforce levees on the lower Los Angeles River and relieve nearby residents of a federal mandate to buy flood insurance.
There are shots aplenty from times of war and protest: the curve of a fighter jet; Iwo Jima, in black and white; a Black Panther's finger snap; battlefield comradeship; a civil-rights clash; the dun and dunes of what appears to be Operation Desert Storm; an anti-Vietnam War rally; then the Vietnam War Memorial, in sunset silhouette.
The hardships the pioneers suffered in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley, and the Mojave Desert became the stuff of California legend, the most tragic being the fate of 87 pioneers who set out from Illinois in 1846.
Golf and tennis are also available in Orange County as well as in the desert communities in and around Palm Springs.