Sentences with desert
des·ert
D d - ...the Sahara Desert.
- They live in 12 high-rise apartment buildings that sit in a desert of concrete.
- Today we are led into the desert of compassion.
- The stark Thar desert is dotted with the beauty of historic citadel.
- Farmers are deserting their fields and coming here looking for jobs. [VERB noun]
- Mrs Roding's husband deserted her years ago. [VERB noun]
- God has used the Jews to make the desert blossom as the rose and protected them during this conversion process.
- The noun is pronounced (dezəʳt). The pronunciation (dɪzɜːʳt) is used for the verb and for meaning [sense 8]. The verb is hyphenated de+sert.
- The paper's price rise will encourage readers to desert in even greater numbers. [VERB]
- Even when he appeared to be depressed, a dry sense of humour never deserted him. [VERB noun]
- He was a second-lieutenant in the army until he deserted. [VERB]
- A cultural desert
- His good humour temporarily deserted him
- A desert island
- To get one's just deserts
- You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.
- Anyone found deserting will be shot.
- They were marooned on a desert island in the Pacific.
- Death was his desert.
- A desert tribe; a desert palm.
- A big, wide-brimmed desert hat.
- He deserted his wife.
- Terrified of the approaching battle, he deserted his post just before dawn.
- None of his friends had deserted him.
- Many deserted during the food shortage.
- Troops were deserting to the enemy.
- Some people felt he had gotten his just deserts, having been imprisoned and relieved of his ill-gotten gains, but others would have preferred old-style public flogging, followed by drawing and quartering, and who can blame them?