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North African desert that is the largest in the world (3.5 million square miles - 7 times larger than the next largest desert and almost as large as the entire USA).

ON February 13, 1960, France tested a nuclear weapon in the Sahara.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

She felt the thirst of the Sahara and called out for water.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
"Even if I have to live in the deserts of the Sahara, I need her eyes open; I won't be able to live without her.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
I see Bedouins in the Sahara and the French Foreign Legion, cowboys on the American prairie.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
But what did Psyollos expect, planting crops at the edge of the Sahara?
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
'Desert of Sahara,' sighed another.
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
Perhaps you will think it passing strange this regret for a savage who was no more account than a grain of sand in a black Sahara.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly.'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
Archie asked, getting down to business without preliminaries, keeping his voice flat and dry as the Sahara.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
If we don't get burped to death by the cows we'll end up like the Sahara Desert, says my father cheerfully, finishing up the meatloaf.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Everybody cheered because, otherwise, we would have had a lesson on the Sahara Desert.
Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
On the edge of the Sahara we ran into a plague of locusts and the chauffeur explained kindly that they were bumble-bees.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
CHRIS HUNTINGTON has worked in France and Taiwan and has taught English in the Sahara and Gabon for the Peace Corps.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
But black-faced Mount Zion, across the tracks in Texana, North Carolina, was as different as the Rocky Mountains are from the Sahara.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
Once she had seen a band of nomad robbers in the Sahara, and somehow was reminded of them by this motley outlaw troop.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
I was thinking of heading to the Sahara kickoff thing.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
I'll do anything if you'll let me stop a bit, for it's as dull as the Desert of Sahara down there.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
It resembled the fearful phenomenon of a similar character known to the travelers in the desert of the great Sahara.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
"You have to cross the entire Sahara desert," said the young man.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
And in general it's all quite pointless-writing, Sahara, and all that.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago

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