alkali flat
Example Sentences
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When I was overcome with exhaustion, my sway morphing into a semi-conscious stupor, I knew it was time to go — the only thing separating me from my air mattress being a vast alkali flat.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2023
Centuries of evaporation have transformed this ancient lake bed into a dry alkali flat, inhabited today by a migratory roost of 30,000 sandhill cranes.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2018
When the ceremony outgrew the beach, in the early 1990s, the burn was moved to a barren alkali flat in an empty corner of northwest Nevada.
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2012
What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains had passed.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had left the sahuaros behind and were coming down among widely scattered salt bushes to the border of an utterly barren alkali flat.
From Bloom of Cactus by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
