Desert in example sentence

Well, in the 1950s, the Soviets decided to divert that water to irrigate the desert to grow cotton, believe it or not, in Kazakhstan, to sell cotton to the international markets to bring foreign currency into the Soviet Union.

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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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