Isolated area of vegetation in a desert.
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Examples for "oasis "
Examples for "oasis "
1 But there were other notable spots in the neighborhood of the oasis .
2 Five minutes away, the capital city is an oasis of relative calm.
3 It's a kind of utopian oasis in the fractious post-civil war days.
4 The long rest on the oasis had restored all his physical vigor.
5 On the one chair in this oasis , the somber gentleman seated himself.
1 A small amount of cotton is also grown in the southern oases .
2 I talk about oases of investigative journalism today, and they are really important.
3 Her days were a desert; these were the oases in it.
4 There are a few oases that are large enough to support small communities.
5 The road emerged in oases of mud from long, inundated spaces.
1 The horses were picketed out on a grassy cienega , which offered them pretty good feed.
2 The Sierra Bonita ranch is located on a natural cienega of moist land that has been considerably enlarged by artificial means.
3 The largest is that of Cienega de Mene, which is shallow.
4 Near Venice Boulevard and La Cienega was a mini-mart liquor store.
5 Our major challenge came at Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega .
6 We're driving it down La Cienega by the Beverly Center, where there's a hill.
7 Instead, he took Highland down into Hollywood and then cut over to La Cienega .
8 We visited a typical highland village called Cienega Redonda with no more than 60 inhabitants.
9 At the stoplight on La Cienega Boulevard an old Toyota pulled up next to me.
10 When I got to La Cienega , I turned left to Pico, then over at Crescent Heights.
11 On the south coast, directly opposite Matanzas, lies a vast swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata.
12 We headed south again on La Cienega .
13 Driving one-handed, I looped my rental Taurus through the slightly illegal U-turn at Sunset and La Cienega .
14 When we exited the Santa Monica Freeway at La Cienega , we were ahead of schedule, but Fabrizio wanted insurance.
16 It was not in Manhattan but at Ferus' La Cienega Boulevard site that Andy Warhol's first gallery show went up.
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