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Sentence Examples Their definitions are often very interesting, and perhaps were supposed to create some oasis in the dense dryness of the technical jargon. Personals is an online oasis for single people seeking dates, romance, and lifelong partners. Promoting artisanal activities like basket-making has particularly strengthened the position of women in the oasis communities. In LaChapelle's interpretation of the desert oasis, it is almost as if the city does not know that it is the epitome of tack and distaste. The oasis is far from the madding crowd, but has neither phone nor electricity, not even a teashop. Perched on its edge is the tented oasis, a convergence of date palms and tamarinds, hot springs and Bedouin hospitality. He tottered blindly towards the bar like a camel making for an oasis after a hard day at the office. In the haphazard tatterdemalion surroundings of sheds and abandoned industrial buildings, the new centre stands out as an organized oasis. Seeking an oasis from daily cares and worries, they come here for camaraderie, a common cause and simply to find a treasure for a bargain. It appears there will be a terrasse full of straw-topped tables in the summer, a little oasis looking out onto scenic de Maisonneuve. It's an oasis for me, and I am deeply thankful for your honest writing and willingness to share your life in some way. Some stopped to pray at the open-air altar, others walked slowly and quietly around marvelling at this little oasis of peace. Four hundred odd people drifted in and out last week, and during this crazy summer, it's shaping up to be a welcome oasis of calm. In the time of Muhammad, Khaibar was a fertile oasis in the Arabian desert. The Taklamakan desert oasis of Turpan, at 154 metres below sea level, is the second lowest point in the world. The water, which overflows from our three natural springs, cascades onto the clover lawn, creating an oasis. Combine with a foreground planting of tradescantias to create a cool oasis of vibrant blues and greens. A reborn oasis of calm and tranquillity is springing up amid the hustle and bustle of Manchester. The Bloomsbury area near Russell Square is an oasis of calm near the British Museum. A deep, clear lake centered the oasis, and the first thing both riders did when they arrived was fill their skins full of the life-giving water. Show More Sentences She agrees and, along with her husband, travels upstate to the secluded, wooded oasis. Framed by the nearby mountains, the oasis is complete with sandy beaches, cabanas, a spa and water slide. At this point, many hajjis take a multi-day side trip to Medina, the oasis city where Muhammad established his first community of followers. On the second floor is a hidden oasis which provides a peaceful yet exotic environment. This flower was unique, there was only one desert in all of Hotep and only one oasis within that desert. In fact, the desert oasis has played host to this event in five of the past six years. They needed to stay on the pathway that led towards the only oasis in the desert and to the only village strong enough to live in this heat. Located around the semiartificial Lake Pichola, it's an oasis in the desert state of Rajasthan. However Leigh Creek has survived them all and prospered to become an oasis in the desert. In a city teeming with traffic and tourists, it is a glorious oasis of calm. Lots of cool bridges, rocks and waterfalls make this a small oasis in the concrete jungle. Because Zambia continues to be an oasis of peace, the nation has become a fertile ground for refugees. In a critical moment like this, the infusion of Chinese capital is like an oasis in the desert. The grounds of Trinity College are an oasis of calm right in the middle of the city. The few spurts of humorous dialogue are like, well, an oasis in the desert. Work used to be an oasis of calm where parents, in the past mainly fathers, could gain identity and self-respect. When they were first introduced, the league tables were an oasis in a desert of information. To my left on the river a lone fisherman sat rod-straight on his boat, an oasis of calm. Now surrounded by the homes and businesses of ever-expanding Swindon, it has taken on a new lease of life as an oasis of calm and beauty. It is here that the upper classes have built a clean, new oasis in a desert of poverty and destruction. Show More Sentences Swift habitat includes desert oasis, Mediterranean scrub, steppe, farm or grassland, urban areas, forest and canyons. Today in every season of the year it serves as an urban oasis where people stroll, chat and enjoy the outdoors. Today, it is the centre of eclectic high fashion and functional art, as well as an oasis of designer pubs, cafes and restaurants. Birds and chipmunks feel right at home in this miniature oasis amid the dry chaparral of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Jasmine sat in the shade of a palm tree by the quiet pristine waters of the oasis. He lives in Vienna, his home a modernist oasis of tranquillity perched above the lush greenery of the Wienerwald. That's why I was very excited to discover a small oasis of fancypants food in my neighborhood, called Choice. On the Big Island of Hawaii, along the Kohala Coast, you will find Mauna Lani Resort, an incomparable oasis of beauty and luxury. In a world where feminism, or postfeminism, is so often reassessed and derided, tennis is a rare oasis of incontrovertibility. As we gather in the relative coolness, the doctor strides forward to warmly welcome us to his small oasis. One farmer has managed to create a small oasis in the middle of the storm, where he lords over everyone else with an iron fist. Of course, native birds such as the American coot, mallard, and Brewer's blackbird also used this valuable oasis. They were heading towards the oasis that preceded the valley that lead to the mines. In that cultural desert, the President on screen appears a dignified and generous oasis of calm and benevolence. The survivors then had to make a punishing trek to an oasis 22 km away, where Haslam died. Two escapees once stumbled upon the oasis by a sheer chance and pure luck, thus becoming the parents of the somber population. The pair have fond memories of the rural oasis where they spent their summer holidays chasing cows and picking blackberries for their gran's jam. He found the oasis, where spring water greened the fields of a small village. The garden of No 10 is a delightful oasis smack bang in the centre of town. It was most unlike the soft earth of the oasis, and her first running steps jarred her knees and hurt her bare feet. Show More Sentences Beyond the lobby is the auditorium and beyond that a sculpture garden, a lovely oasis of quietude at the rear of the lot. Small ranchers in northern New Mexico pay to graze 1 to 25 cattle per ranch in this oasis all summer. One of the old rattlers crawled into the station like a desert explorer desperately clawing his way towards an oasis. The meadow is now an oasis for wildlife surrounded by arable land and an old airfield. She now lives in Palm Springs, the desert oasis associated with super-rich and wrinkly superstars. When we finally made it back to the gate the nice paved paths seemed an oasis of smooth level ground. Their home soon became an elegant yet hospitable oasis at the core of the Bair ranch. La Palmeraie's 40 acres of grounds also contain a new and utterly tranquil oasis modelled on a riad, with 60 suites. Florida, land of limpkins, oasis of anhingas, gathering place of gallinules, offers some of the most distinctive birding in the United States. The moon was rising and the sun setting when she first glimpsed what she assumed was the oasis. The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of disconnected thought and jarring line breaks. You might be surprised to hear that hidden in Tampa, Florida is a food oasis of the Cuban persuasion. From his map, he knows there is an oasis somewhere in the near distance. The Plaza, with its canopy of acacias, jacarandas and monkey-puzzles offers an oasis of calm from both the traffic noise and soaring heat of midday. Timia is a gem of an oasis, a well watered valley, fringed by mountains. Then immerse yourself in the exotic oasis of nearby Foster Botanical Garden, and send the kids sleuthing for chocolate, cinnamon, and chicle trees, amid other varieties. To achieve the correct size of the oasis for the container, press the opening of the vase on to the oasis and then try to cut out the exact shape with a sharp knife. If you are creating large or longer hanging dried flower arrangements, two or more bricks of oasis can be fixed together by running strong wires through the plastic container. Here in the former home of the maharaja one finds an opulent oasis from the bustle of the city. More than 200 gay men from across North America arrived at a remote Arizona oasis by summer's end, kick-starting an international movement that flourishes to this day. Show More Sentences The little oasis on Buckshaw Hall Road, off Chancery Road, has been home to kingfishers, herons, mallard and a moorhen that has recently settled there. Led by experienced guides, Jasber also climbed the extinct Losimingori volcano, walked through the ancient oasis of Silela Forest and visited a Masai village. This house has the potential to be an urban oasis with serious steeze. His office is dominated by a rich mahogany antique desk, piled high with the books he has written and behind which spreads an oasis of orchids and exotic greenery. The farm is a three-acre oasis in an area of suburban development. This oasis of marshland is the home of many interesting plants, including pink and pale purple garlic, bog asphodels, irises, reeds and waterlilies. Even so, in the turbulent Middle East of the Arab Spring Lebanon has been an oasis of calm and relative affluence. Voting was disrupted also at oasis towns in southeastern Libya, including Jalo and Ojla. Beyond it lies another world, quite unlike the one on bustling Queen West, a serene, unworldly oasis of miniature food, quaint dishes and exotic teas. The cultural desert has found an oasis from which to market its future. Whereas Mid-City has niched itself as a serious gym bordering on hard core, Chelsea Piers with its cafe, sundeck, day spa and more is an oasis in the city. You could see the cars stream by in the distance, silently eating into the heat haze of horizon, but you knew no one gave our little oasis a second look. As they stumble on, hoping for salvation in the form of an oasis or something similar, they suddenly spy, through the heat haze, a tree, off in the distance. A short walk out of the centre brings you to the cool stone walls of the cloistered courtyard, a welcome oasis of calm away from the busy city streets. More than 90 percent of this 2,000-year-old oasis town, surrounded by date palms, orange orchards and henna in the desert separating Iran from Pakistan, has been destroyed. I knew it was an oasis of cold drinks, cool grasses and music in the park. Far from being the pristine oasis of calm portrayed in magazines, my house still looks as if it's been done over by a gang of particularly thorough burglars. Unfortunately the visibility is a milky 5m, though this doesn't detract from the huge shoals of snapper and the angelfish, batfish and giant grouper that call this oasis home. Our brief trip to the beach was a much-needed oasis in a summer of hard work. In such a situation, the possibility of going away on an international residency presents itself as a very real relief, a providential oasis or retreat to an artist. Show More Sentences This person also cast doubt on whether the grapevines at oasis would have survived a long period of neglect. The small park is a welcome oasis amid the city's many factories. Cannes is the hotel garden, which contains ornamental water with ducks, water-rats etc, and forms an oasis in this bloodsome desert. The park forms a natural amphitheatre located in the Denburn Valley and is an oasis of peace and calm in the city centre. The garden had been planted by the god Yahweh, who had caused a spring to gush forth in the eastern desert to create a paradisal oasis. In the Sahara, the distinction between sedentary oasis inhabitants and nomadic Bedouins and Tuaregs is particularly marked. Her salon, primarily populated by other noblewomen, was an oasis for polite discussion, refined manners, literary composition and playful banter. A GREEN oasis in the heart of the Caerphilly County Borough will become the country's first National Nature Reserve in an urban setting. After spending a month in Gao, Ibn Battuta set off with a large caravan for the oasis of Takedda. They were lonely servants providing an oasis in a long, desert path. In the middle of the 14th century Ibn Battuta crossed the desert from Sijilmasa via the salt mines at Taghaza to the oasis of Oualata. Many trading routes went from oasis to oasis to resupply on both food and water. If you want to create a calm oasis for your baby, a neutral roller blind is the perfect addition to your nursery. A number of public art features, fountains, a canal and greenery can be found here as an oasis among the city centre excitement. It's an oasis in the midst of a concrete jungle,' said Dowd, a gaunt, ruddy-faced Norman Rockwellesque figure. Gaddafi loyalists showed they were still a threat by launching an attack on Sunday on the desert oasis town of Ghadames, on the border with Algeria, NTC officials said. But it was Medwyn's wife Gwenda who had the painstaking task of creating it with more than 100 tomatoes, all fixed to an oval of flower arranger's oasis with cocktail sticks. The Garamantean Road passed south of the desert near Murzuk before turning north to pass between the Alhaggar and Tibesti Mountains before reaching the oasis at Kawar. During a recent visit, Ibrahim discovered that a fire had ripped through the eastern end of the oasis and destroyed dozens of doum palms, a close relative of the argun. But Jim showed me this little oasis of diversity in Sugar House. Show More Sentences A five minute walk from the Atocha railway station brings you to an oasis of calm where roller bladers and joggers mix with families on a morning stroll. Either hotel puts you close to Papago Park, Phoenix's central oasis. A local official said gunmen from the Toubou and Tuareg minorities fought in the oasis city of Sabha in the Sahara, displacing hundreds of families. Ha'il, which is an oasis city in Nejd in the north west of the country, contributes to a large percentage of the Kingdom's wheat, date and fruit production. A book, flip-flops, a spritzy refresher, and time to enjoy the negative-edge pool in its oasis setting surrounded by agaves, red yucca, creosote bush, saguaros, and paloverde. The five-start luxury hotel blends Victor Vasarely inspired Op Art with Sofitel's French art de vivre, with a combination of geometric chic and an oasis of art, it said. Tiny barn swallows struggle across the sands to find a life-saving oasis. Time was when this Bethesda too was curative, a sweet oasis in a parched and driven city. The day we went we found the fountain had been shut off. Examples from Classical Literature In the centre was the zocalo, a green oasis of verdure laid out in winding walks and brilliant flower-beds. It is generally a more or less crazy idea, but one hails it as an oasis in the desert of blusterous commonplace. He will be long remembered as the one oasis in a desert of maladministration. The journey to Pethor was by the oasis of Tadmor and the fords at Carchemish. The thirsty traveler in the desert places had come to the oasis of her dreams. Could anything in city planning be happier in effect than the position of the cathedral in its quiet oasis amid the streets? He intended to do this tomorrow, somewhere between the oasis and Ankara, but the Pasha's son had presented an awkward problem. A week in the desert and the flowery oasis of the Fayum, with the two most charming women in Egypt! The caravan for which Ali was handling camels came to an oasis one day out of Ankara and found another caravan already encamped. While we are still advancing, a pigeon hawk darts over our heads, going straight for the oasis. It was an oasis of natural splendor in the heart of a calm sea of green grass. It fell like an oasis over the solemn company walking there. It is reminiscent, with many differences, of an Algerian oasis. After a thousand scenes of pillage, of vexation, and attacks by armed forces, their caravan arrived, in October, at the vast oasis of Asben. You know that oasis, fresh and fair In the city desert, as Greeley square? Properly catechized or not, the eunuch stops at the first oasis and asks Philip to baptize him. His long legs were stretched straight before him overlapping the meager blanket, his spurs buried in the sandy soil of the little desert oasis. He was standing before a goat-skin tent amidst a clump of date palms within a tiny oasis. The oasis was of small extent, extending but two hundred yards across. My father's tribe live in the oasis ten miles east of the old lake. Show More Sentences Leading Ben Akbar, Ali filled his water bag at the oasis and went on. The balloon, which had again lost its momentum, was floating in sight of an oasis, a sort of islet studded with green trees, thrown up upon the surface of this sandy ocean. After snacking on pizza and warming up with hot chocolate, Nicole Correia, 13, sledded down the ramp, grinding to a halt at the edge of the snow oasis. Seeing trees on the horizon, however, they walked towards them, and discovered a large and fertile oasis some miles in extent, and plentifully watered. I leaned my elbows on the narrow stone chimney-piece, which, with the grate below and a small mirror above, formed an almost solitary oasis in the four walls of books. Late that afternoon they went into camp at a little oasis in which was the DOUAR of a sheik whose flocks were being stolen, and whose herdsmen were being killed. She was my oasis of mystery in the dreary desert of knowledge. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of oasis? Words that rhyme with oasis What is the plural of oasis? What is the adjective for oasis? What is the noun for oasis? Translations for oasis Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words oases OAS oarswoman oarsmen oarsmanship oarsman Oasis OASIS oast oat oatcake oaten 5-letter Words Starting With o oa oas oasi