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.
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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Meanings and Examples of DESERT
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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.
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.
3 I cannot understand why I did not desert.
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.
5 They moved on from the desert stillness of the Schoenstrom station.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 But I will never desert ye, sir, as Stubb did him.
11 He ate and drank with an appetite that no sense of danger could disturb, but his vigilance seemed never to desert him.
12 In that moment of surprise, the self-possession of Heyward did not desert him.
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.
14 "I knew that you would never desert me," she said, looking up with a momentary glow on her otherwise dejected countenance.
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.
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.