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How to use the word Oasis in a Sentence?

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My main goal is to make sure that marginalized and underserved communities have access to locally grown food that's free of chemicals, we have turned five acres of land right here in the heart of the city into a green oasis that really impacts the quality of life of people that live around here.

Bobby Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Three minutes in the weightlessness of space, and the beauty of this oasis of Earth, and -- I was planning on pressing my nose against the window, you know, and my only hope was I wouldn't see somebody else looking back.

William Shatner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I expect that growth stocks will remain our oasis in the political chaos rippling around the world, money has to go somewhere and due to the ultra-low interest rate environment, millions of new investors are turning to the stock market, seeking higher yields.

Louis Navellier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is at least somewhat of an oasis.

Glenn Hollister

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. -Martin Luther king .jr

Parzival

added by Parzival
4 years ago

Perhaps men need their little oasis of retreat where they're allowed to be children, certain people seem to have lost any sort of decency. Anything' other' rubs them the wrong way.

Claudia Neumann

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Isle of Wight County, it is a great place to live, to work, to raise kids, this is a small, tight-knight community. We are an oasis… We don’t have a lot of murders. When something like this happens, especially when it goes unsolved for this long, it does shake the foundation a little bit. People want to know if someone’s trying to take advantage of our quiet way of life here. The field had to have been known by somebody… It kind of reminds people this can happen here. This kind of gruesome crime, it can happen in our backyards.

Tommy Potter

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight, people will write and say what they like but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.

Noel Gallagher

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the case of the Oasis rumors, they're all started by people who are around Liam, anybody who knows anything about that band knows that it is not going to happen.

Noel Gallagher

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a pleasure, an oasis of calm in this concrete city.

Ivo Contreras

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This will create fear among people on a whole different level than we're used to, charlie Hebdo was a small oasis. Not many dared do what they did.

Lars Vilks

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

Dinesh D'Souza

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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