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Example sentences for: desert-like

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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.
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.
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.