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desert
n. barren land, with very little water and vegetation, often sand-covered
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)
16 The desert is so arid that nothing can grow there.
17 Not a flower nor even a blade of grass will grow in this desert.
18 The heat in the desert was extreme.
19 Nobody likes to live in the desert.
20 The road through the desert shimmered in the haze.
21 The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
22 The book described the adaptation of desert species to the hot conditions.
23 The state of Nevada is largely desert.
24 That little store was the last outpost for motorists before they entered the desert.
25 The high desert plains are beautiful and have a more temperate climate, but for some people, the altitude is a health problem.
26 Looking out at the trackless, barren desert, Indiana Jones feared that his search for the missing expedition would prove fruitless.
27 An outburst of relief as Stardust finally landed in the Utah desert after a four and a half billion kilometre journey that had taken the craft half way out to Jupiter and through the tail of a comet.
28 From palaces to the desert mounds, remnants of this ancient culture litter the landscape.
29 Egypt is a long country, but it is strait, that is to say narrow, for they may not enlarge it toward the desert, for default of water.
30 The vultures flying overhead presage the discovery of the corpse in the desert.