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Great Sandy Desert

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A vast arid area of northwest Australia north of the Gibson Desert.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert
  • noun a desert in southern Saudi Arabia

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Examples

  • The combined area of this mare is equal in size to the Great Sandy Desert in Australia—and almost as vacant in interior features.

    Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 19-21, 2010 | Universe Today 2010

  • This high pressure trough meant that each morning during those weeks and months in the early part of the day, an easterly wind bringing hot air from the Great Sandy Desert would blow through the eastern facing windows of our home in Western Australia.

    Printing: Global Warming? Global Cooling? So what is with the weather? 2010

  • This high pressure trough meant that each morning during those weeks and months in the early part of the day, an easterly wind bringing hot air from the Great Sandy Desert would blow through the eastern facing windows of our home in Western Australia.

    Global Warming? Global Cooling? So what is with the weather? 2010

  • This high pressure trough meant that each morning during those weeks and months in the early part of the day, an easterly wind bringing hot air from the Great Sandy Desert would blow through the eastern facing windows of our home in Western Australia.

    Global Warming? Global Cooling? So what is with the weather? 2010

  • Around a dozen national parks were made available – principally in Cape York but also the Great Sandy Desert National Park in the south‐western corner of Queensland – and they were all successfully proven before the Land Tribunal.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • Around a dozen national parks were made available – principally in Cape York but also the Great Sandy Desert National Park in the south‐western corner of Queensland – and they were all successfully proven before the Land Tribunal.

    Rudd's previous record in indigenous affairs Bill Kerr 2008

  • No, they were moving onto the Lower Desert south of the Metolius and onto the Great Sandy Desert south of Bend.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • No, they were moving onto the Lower Desert south of the Metolius and onto the Great Sandy Desert south of Bend.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Thus there still remained a vast unknown expanse right in the heart of the interior covering 150,000 square miles, bounded on the North by Warburton's Great Sandy Desert, on the South by

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • But a new software program being tested in the Kimberley and earmarked for schools such as Nullagine, perched on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert 1364km northeast of Perth, is changing long-accepted ways.

    The Australian | News | 2011

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