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Sahara Desert   /səhˈɛrə dˈɛzərt/   Listen
Sahara Desert

noun
1.
The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa.  Synonym: Sahara.






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"Sahara Desert" Quotes from Famous Books



... where, taking a sharp turn, it first reached a latitude of 32 degrees, and then returned again, thus forming a sort of irregular gulf, enclosed by the same unvarying border of mineral concrete. This colossal boundary then stretched away for nearly 150 leagues over the Sahara desert, and, extending to the south of Gourbi Island, occupied what, if Morocco had still existed, would have been ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne

... their new life, they assembled for their antibiotic shots and the last medical check by the Solar Guard doctors. There were crystal miners from Titan, farmers from Venus, Mars, and Earth, prospectors from the New Sahara desert of Mars, engineers from the atmosphere booster stations on Ganymede, and just plain citizens who wanted a new life on the distant satellite of Wolf 359. All had gathered for the great mass ...
— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell



Words linked to "Sahara Desert" :   Sahara, Libyan Desert, Tuareg, desert, Africa



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