Nubian Desert

American  

noun

1. an arid region in the NE Sudan.

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Nubian Desert British  

noun

1. a desert in the NE Sudan, between the Nile valley and the Red Sea: mainly a sandstone plateau

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Example Sentences

In Telassar, a thriving city hidden below the Nubian Desert, Hopkins’s protagonist, the biracial Harvard Medical student Reuel Briggs, encounters an advanced civilization with “specimens of the highest attainments the world knew in ancient days.”

From New York Times

New high-resolution images of a meteorite found in the Nubian Desert in 2008 revealed it contains diamonds—possibly from a “lost” planet that orbited the sun during the solar system’s formation, scientists say.

From Scientific American

In 2008, pieces of diamond encased in rock descended from space and landed in the Nubian Desert of Sudan.

From Scientific American

The magnitude of the undertaking, not limited to their Nubian Desert crossing and other logistical challenges from one end of Africa to the other, was astounding even by 2016 standards.

From National Geographic

It blew up over the Nubian Desert, in Sudan, and no one was injured.

From Economist