Desert in example sentence

1976, Air France was hijacked, taken to Entebbe, and the Israelis not only did an extraordinary rescue, they did it partly because they had practiced on a physical model of the airport, because they had built the airport, so they built a model in the desert, and when they arrived at Entebbe, they knew where to go because they had actually been there.

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The presence of camels, mountains, desert wells and springs took me back to the year I spent wandering the Sinai Desert.

I sat down and felt the blood rush down from my face, and in the heat of the desert, I was freezing cold.

That's because an Apache triathlon used to be you'd run 50 miles across the desert, engage in hand-to-hand combat, steal a bunch of horses, and slap leather for home.

It may come as a surprise to some of you to hear that quite large areas of what are currently desert were actually forested a fairly short time ago.

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