chollas
- plural of cholla.
Example Sentences
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At night, cars speed along the desert roads, their headlights casting meager light against the dark or illuminating the tops of the chollas.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021
I pulled over, to the side of the dirt road, and told him to get out, happy to leave him among the chollas and scrubby piñon trees.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2015
Here, on a low, sun-scorched rise dotted with chollas and indigobushes and twelve-foot ocotillo stems, McCandless slept on the sand under a tarp hung from a creosote branch.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Surrounded by chollas, bur sage, and the comical scurrying of collared lizards, McCandless pitched his tent in the puny shade of a tamarisk and basked in his newfound freedom.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Now and again the stout vamps of her hunting boots were pierced by chollas and, half frantic in her haste, she was forced to stop and struggle to pull out the thorns.
From The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Morrow, Honoré
