oasis

Example Sentences

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My friends and I have experienced the kind of contradictory adventure this route allows: playing in the snow in the same weekend we visited an oasis shaded by hulking palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead he took his daily exercise on a running machine in the tiny sports room, which "became – in my situation – a veritable oasis".

From BBC

Compared with classroom chaos, even LAX will seem like an oasis of tranquility.

From Los Angeles Times

“We’ve created an oasis in a huge parking lot in Boyle Heights, and it looks like a botanical garden in Australia,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

While there are some fully off-grid dwellers, ranging from high-end desert oases and North Coast communes to the famous counterculture settlement of Imperial County’s “Slab City,” an off-grid suburb is one of a kind.

From Los Angeles Times