DESERT in a Sentence

Learn DESERT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
267 example sentences for DESERT, such as:
1. Cactus is a type of green desert plant.
2. I cannot understand why I did not desert.
3. This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.
4. This area of the country is mostly desert.
5. This town is a cultural/intellectual desert.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DESERT
desert
 v.  desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
 n.  arid land with little or no vegetation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She could not desert Tara; she belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  In the days that followed, Tara might have been Crusoe's desert island, so still it was, so isolated from the rest of the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  I cannot understand why I did not desert.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  It would have been impossible for Mrs. Peniston to be heroic on a desert island, but with the eyes of her little world upon her she took a certain pleasure in her act.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  They moved on from the desert stillness of the Schoenstrom station.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
7  On the contrary, it seemed, that mainly at Steelkilt's instigation, they had resolved to maintain the strictest peacefulness, obey all orders to the last, and, when the ship reached port, desert her in a body.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
8  It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx's in the desert.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
9  They tell me, sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip, whose drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
10  But I will never desert ye, sir, as Stubb did him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
11  He ate and drank with an appetite that no sense of danger could disturb, but his vigilance seemed never to desert him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
12  In that moment of surprise, the self-possession of Heyward did not desert him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
13  A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
14  "I knew that you would never desert me," she said, looking up with a momentary glow on her otherwise dejected countenance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
15  Heyward gladly obeyed a summons that took them from a spot where, each instant, he felt his self-control was about to desert him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.
2  He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
3  This area of the country is mostly desert.
4  Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert.
5  This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.
6  Cactus is a type of green desert plant.
7  They set up camp on the verge of the desert.
8  The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil.
9  The land loses its protective cover of vegetation and soon turns into desert.
10  The theatre and cinema closed and the town became a cultural desert.
11  This town is a cultural/intellectual desert.
12  If you get lost in the desert,calculate your direction by the sun and keep moving,then you're sure to get somewhere.
13  The paper's price rise will encourage readers to desert in even greater numbers.
14  Eventually they happened on a road leading across the desert.
15  It is impossible to make plants grow in a desert without irrigation.