draa

1. A large dune measuring up to several hundred kilometers in length and hundreds of meters in height. Smaller dunes often form on their leeward and windward faces.

Example Sentences

Today, to drive the circuitous route through the Atlases and into the Draa Valley is to exist on that line: It’s a liminal place where verdant gardens and soaring minarets open onto the vast barrens of the Sahara.

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From there, follow the N9 and N12 roads to hew close to the Draa, a river that runs along the Algerian border, nourishing a landscape of riotous color: The mountains’ ochers, umbers and emeralds cede to rippling oases of blue palms, olive groves, fields of golden barley and sun-baked adobe casbahs.

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Their homes — made of mud brick and stucco, with walls now jagged or altogether missing — stand as monuments to the Draa’s rich, syncretic past and to the enthralling boundlessness of its present.

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Make-up artist Sarah Draa, 23, first got filler in her lips when she was 18.

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Draa said he has tried other home health care workers, but Nuñez was the perfect fit because she always has a smile on her face and adapts to the needs of her clients.

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