Libyan Desert

American  

noun

1. a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).

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Libyan Desert British  

noun

1. a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and the NW Sudan: the NE part of the Sahara

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Example Sentences

In 1932, cinema audiences were amazed to see the exploits of another young army officer, Ralph Bagnold, journeying thousands of miles across the Libyan Desert in a car.

From BBC • May 26, 2017

Over the grey Libyan Desert the air quivered in the peak heat of the early hot season.

From Time Magazine Archive

A small caravan led by A. M. Hassanein Bey, F.R.G.S., set out from Sellum on the Mediterranean in 1923, began to crawl in the sun's eye across the Libyan Desert.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between Egypt and Italian Tripoli, just north of the great Libyan Desert, lies the tiny oasis-city of Jarabub, an excessively important water supply station for the trans-Libyan caravans.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw the Libyan Desert, where nomads tend their camels as they did a thousand years ago.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins