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Example sentences for: desert-like

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Two thousand years ago the Roman senator Cicero noted the creation of barren desert-like land in North Africa after the forests were felled for their timber, providing the earliest record of an ecosystem ‘service’ provided by forests—the stabilisation of soils.
Rather, it is remote, rugged and desert-like, with only a relative smattering (compared to the rest of the Algarve) of hotels, restaurants, and other facilities aimed at tourists.
Beyond these two bays, the landscape has more of a desert-like appearance, with large cacti interspersed among the palms.
The hardscrabble town of Sagres and the area around it are remote, rugged, and desert-like, with only a relative smattering of hotels, restaurants, and other facilities aimed at tourists.