Mohave Desert
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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CoreCivic’s 2,560-bed immigration detention center there sits on 70 acres in the Mohave Desert about 80 miles east of Bakersfield.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
He visited the Mohave Desert and saw a stretch of land called Tri-State was unoccupied.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2023
Last year, in an initial trial event, Pacific-based forces stayed in Hawaii for their scheduled exercises at the National Training Center in California’s Mohave Desert.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2022
Needles, a city near the Mohave Desert, reached 122 F, one degree higher than its hottest-ever reading in 2003.
From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2021
We came in over the Mohave Desert, crossed the mountains at the desert’s western edge, and started out over the valley, where I knew Los Angeles lay thirteen thousand feet beneath us.
From Test Pilot by Collins, Jimmy
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