desert
Example Sentences
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Hilda witnesses the crime and is so distraught that her moral certitude temporarily deserts her.
Deep in the desert of Niger, scientists have unearthed an unknown species of dinosaur, a giant fissvery of its kind in more than a century.
From Barron's
The new plan had a “desert opera” theme.
After a few days of argument, these men took some supplies, deserted the Advance, and set off across the ice to try to save themselves.
From Literature
The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
