desert

[ˈdezərt]

Definition:
1. An arid region with little or no vegetation.
2. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.
3. Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army.
4. Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.

Use 'desert' in a sentence:

1. The vehicles have been modified to suit conditions in the desert.
2. Mysteriously, the streets were deserted.
3. To add verisimilitude, the stage is covered with sand for the desert scenes.
4. Her courage seemed to desert her for a moment.
5. It is one of the rare places in the world where the desert meets the sea.
6. Young workers are more willing to desert jobs they don't like.
7. The villages had been deserted.
8. He wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
9. Why did Alan cross the desert on foot?
10. One after another the Italian bases in the desert fell as the retreat turned into a rout.
11. He had prospected for minerals everywhere from the Gobi Desert to the Transvaal.
12. No one agrees on what counts as a desert.
13. They drove 600 miles across the desert.
14. First, the traders crossed the desert.
15. He is on a trek through the South Gobi desert.
16. The ground of this desert is made of clay.
17. Even in the desert there was a kind of social hierarchy.
18. Don't desert me in my hour of need.
19. He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
20. The streets were silent and deserted.
21. She drove up a steep grade and then began the long descent into the desert.
22. It was once a desert.
23. I think she got her just deserts.
24. The terrain changed quickly from arable land to desert.
25. Farmers are deserting their fields and coming here looking for jobs.
26. From a height, it looks like a desert.
27. Why did you desert teaching for politics?
28. The climate is very dry in the desert area.
29. She was deserted by her husband.
30. We traverse the desert by truck.
31. They had scoured the intervening miles of desert.
32. That's certainly true of other desert lakes.
33. Somalia is mostly desert.
34. Essentially it was part of a vast desert.
35. Large numbers of soldiers deserted as defeat became inevitable.
36. The remote desert area is accessible only by helicopter.
37. The army would try to hold the western desert with a bare minimum of forces.
38. The family of the victim said that the killer had got his just deserts when he was jailed for life.
39. The owl seems to have deserted its nest.
40. ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
41. The wind blew in from the desert and covered everything with sand.
42. She had missed the glorious blooms of the desert spring.
43. As usual at that hour, the place was deserted.
44. The heat in the desert was extreme.
45. Desert plants are adapted to cope with extreme heat.
46. The paper's price rise will encourage readers to desert in even greater numbers.
47. Stop here to gas up before crossing the desert.
48. The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.
49. Frank Mariano negotiates the desert terrain in his battered pickup.
50. The diamond towns are gradually being reclaimed by the desert.