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Mojave Desert
noun
- a desert in S California: part of the Great Basin. About 15,000 sq. mi. (38,850 sq. km).
Mojave Desert
noun
- a desert in S California, south of the Sierra Nevada: part of the Great Basin. Area: 38 850 sq km (15 000 sq miles)
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In 1902, deep in the Mojave Desert in California, a man named William Henry Schmidt began chiseling.
For these people the disaster over the Mojave Desert is a sobering wake-up call.
In California, he recreated ground battles in the Mojave Desert, using fake tanks (metal frames covered in canvas).
Our first night's camp was out on the barren waterless plain, now known as the Mojave Desert.
For a few hours we retraced our way and then turned eastward across the edge of the great Mojave Desert.
I raised turtles out on the Mojave desert one spell and fed 'em on nothing but grass.
In the southern part of the Mojave Desert a low hill stands somewhat apart from the foot-hills beyond, and back of it.
Somehow the elective system had enabled them "to get by" in a state of mind that resembled the Mojave Desert.
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