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

The south offers a haven to regroup, but its remoteness in the Libyan Desert makes it more difficult for it to attract recruits and stage attacks.

From Washington Post

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

From Literature

Intelligence reports suggest that some of the attackers trained at camps he established in the Libyan Desert, a former U.S. official said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Libyan Desert reaches to the Sahara, which stretches across the continent.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus Thothmes ruled over lands extending from the mountains of Caucasus to the shores of the Indian Ocean, and from the Libyan Desert to the great river Tigris.

From Project Gutenberg