How to Use desert in a Sentence

desert

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• The cast and crew filmed for 138 grueling days in the desert.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
• The performances will mark her first time back in the desert in a decade.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
• Lin rides a camel in the desert after meeting a group of Bedouins by a well in the desert.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
• Its births were triggered by rainfall in the bone-dry desert.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
• Yes sir, life is good in the desert, where fans are returning to Chase Field to root for the home team again.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• The show is set for a tentative start time of 8 p.m. locally in the desert of Saqqara, Egypt.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2024
• What was supposed to have been a few hours on a bus turned into a 20-hour escape from the desert.
  — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• New versions of al-Qaeda or the Islamic State would bloom in the desert.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
• How the pupfish ended up in the Nevada desert is not known for certain.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• The desert water park dates back to the 1950s when it was called Lake Dolores Waterpark.
  — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
• The number of those deserts has risen nationwide in the past few years, according to March of Dimes.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
• One of them offers an exhausted woman in the desert the power of flight.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• For three seasons, this show has been a fleeting and lonely oasis of hope in the midst of a media desert.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• The biggest party in the desert is set to make its 2024 return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
  — Holly Alvarado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024
• Insider tips on the best of our beaches, trails, parks, deserts, forests and mountains.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The location in his fiction had shifted as well, to the desert Southwest.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• The first season is set in the desert of the Australian outback, while season two takes place against the lush greenery of Ireland.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• People in traditional Bedouin outfits, along with camels, were all around the desert and around the tent.
  — Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Like Phoenix, the southern desert city was expected to see a high of 108 degrees with sunny skies.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2023
• Nor is the saguaro forest in the desert disappearing, despite concerns for the species’ health.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• During that uncrewed flight, the rocket broke apart, but the capsule safely parachuted to the West Texas desert.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
• Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have landed in the desert for Coachella — and their 'fits are festival-ready!
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024
• The territory of concern is bordered by the Anza-Borrego desert to the northeast, Ramona to the west and Alpine to the south.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
• Faint looking objects in the sky become more visible from the desert.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• Hot tip to those struggling with the desert chill: there is a man with a cowboy hat selling hot cocoa by the ¿Te Gusta El Pop?
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• The 4,000-square-mile reservation in the desert west of Tucson shares a long border with Mexico.
  — Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 1 June 2023
• Plus, starting around late February, there will be a chance to see the desert’s wildflower blooms.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• This group of orange and tan hues, like Practical Beige, deliver the warmth of the desert, along with a pop of blue that evokes the vastness of the middle-of-nowhere sky.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 13 June 2023
• In the summer, the desert surrounding the Salton Sea in California seems to glow from the glare of the unrelenting sun.
  — Emma Grillo Kitra Cahana, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
• The area was once a riotous tangle of green trees and rare plants that more closely resembled a forest than a desert.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024

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desert

2 of 2 verb

• She had been married for just over a year when her husband deserted her.
• The inhabitants had deserted the town.
• He was deserted by his friends and family.
• When the prison closed in 1909, the land reverted to desert.
  — Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
• The road was now open to Kabul, where the police and the army were starting to desert their posts.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• And again in 2020, when the double haters deserted Trump for Biden.
  — Doyle McManus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• Rafael’s decision to desert the military would change the course of his life.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• The streets are deserted, shops and restaurants closed.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• Scientists have found that the shell of the bug, which is native to desert habitats in the Southwestern U.S., has evolved to protect it.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2020
• But Sunday and Monday, cold rain and wind changed the nature of the lake, which was mostly deserted.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• The calf was deserted by its herd and had to be euthanized.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
• The streets are deserted; businesses and schools are closed.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
• Botswana is home to diverse landscapes that span delta to desert, and the local culture is vibrant and inviting.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2023
• The Dallas Morning News mapped every public and private school in the state and found private school deserts across wide swaths of Texas.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The term rogue planet suggests that these objects desert their stars on purpose, striking out on their own to carve a new path through the Milky Way.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2020
• The headlines landed with hard edges on L.A. fans who had come to assume their hometown hero would never desert them.
  — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• But now the nonprofit Save the Children has come up with a brilliant idea on how to address the country’s growing child care deserts.
  — Sarah Cottrell, Parents, 7 Nov. 2023
• Mat Honan: Stewart is the child of someone who deserted from the army during the Vietnam War.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• The two unarmed diplomats then decide to brave the war zone to ferry their 125 countrymen through gunfires and desert back home.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
• Right at that time, a drying climate was transforming the Sahara from grasslands to desert.
  — Byjoshua Sokol, science.org, 27 Mar. 2023
• Jack Dorsey is one step closer to providing online refuge for the slew of social media users ready to desert Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk's takeover.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
• But lawmakers are also keeping an ear out for colleagues who backed Jordan in the first round but may desert him this time.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• Now, it’s cordoned off, and the wooden picnic tables that survived the fire are deserted.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• Residents have been forced to shelter in their homes, with shops shut and streets largely deserted.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• When Captain Kidd dispatched a press-gang to find new recruits for the Wager, six members of the gang itself deserted.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• The streets were mostly deserted, with the late hour and with many people having left town for the Fourteenth of July holiday.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The landscape was fading from forest to plains to desert when Vickie mentioned that a filmmaker reached out to her with an idea: a movie about Sissy.
  — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
• And the trips to the Pacific Northwest come on back-to-back Saturdays in November, when the weather could be inhospitable to desert dwellers.
  — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2021
• And what happens when our version of winter comes, with rain and that damp San Francisco chill, and the customers desert all those sidewalk restaurants?
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• Save for the descendants of a handful of its original residents, however, the tower was, and looked, deserted.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024