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oasis

A spring in a desert, where there is water and plant growth around the water. The oasis saved the lost travelers from dying of thirst. A quiet place apart from noise or bustle around the place. The park was an oasis in the middle of the busy city.

oasis

a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface) (= haven) a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

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Simple sentences

We saw what looked like an oasis in the desert.
After wandering aimlessly through the desert for months, we discovered a solitary oasis.
Earth is our oasis in space.
How many palm trees are there in this oasis?
Tom found an oasis.

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I can always say the oasis is too well guarded.
How do you spell oasis?
Scientifically, you can't call this an oasis.
That's right. San Francisco, an oasis of civilization in the California desert.
It's like an oasis.
He called it his oasis.
We're like the seven Arabs in the desert looking for an oasis.
Get back to the oasis.
It's a bit baffling, this oasis for rejects from the outside world like us.
It's flat, it's gray, it's undeveloped, but. it's undeveloped, but. it will be a veritable oasis. a verit. an oasis, yes.
There's an oasis in Africa, near Marrakesh. It's divine. You live on sun and fruit, lots offruit.
The nearest is a small oasis, but that's one weeks journey north from here.
Bandits always camp near an oasis.
This oasis must meet the situation with determination.
This oasis must face the situation with determination.
San Francisco, an oasis of civilization in the California desert.
There's no oasis far and wide.
You will also investigate the phenomenon encountered by the Byrd expedition of 1947, a polar oasis consisting of a body of warm water completely surrounded by this vast desert of ice.
The oasis of Asselar will not be covered.
This is the largest oasis, isn't it?
A true oasis for those of us rejected by society.
Before we meet again, try oasis for the softest taste of all.
Scientifically, this isn't an oasis.
Right in the middle of the Nevada desert, you bump into this cockeyed oasis.
Well, it can look like an oasis, or it can look like that.
There's an oasis near Marrakesh, it's divine!
The nearest is a small oasis, but that's one week's journey north from here.
There is another danger, Ian - bandits always camp near an oasis.
We go to the oasis.
Each day, our progress towards the oasis becomes less.
Until we reach the oasis, Doctor, yes.
I will go to the oasis and bring back water.
Do you think you could reach the oasis?
No, while we can, we'll push on towards the oasis.
He would not start back from the oasis in the dark, for fear of missing us.

News and current affairs

To neo-conservative ideologues, it is the democratic oasis in a desert of tyrannies.
Unlike Europe, beset by a sovereign-debt crisis, and the United States, whose leaders are wrangling over how to stem the deficit, Russia may look like an oasis of stability and continuity.
The center is a true oasis.
It is difficult to see how Asia can remain an oasis of prosperity in such a tough global climate.
It is an oasis of peace, if not dynamism.
Can Israel remain an oasis of stability, security, modernity, and economic growth in such a volatile environment?
The Americans' supply train would regularly pass through my father's ancestral village, Arak, then a scenic oasis of green gardens and fruit orchards.

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