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How to pronounce desert in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms defect
Type of take flight, fly, flee
Has types rat
Derivation deserter, desertion


If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot.
Type Words
Synonyms abandon, desolate, forsake
Type of leave
Has types ditch, expose, walk out, maroon, strand
Derivation deserter, desertion


The mother deserted her children.
Type Words
Type of piece of ground, biome, tract, parcel of land, piece of land, parcel
Type Words
Type of go away, leave, go forth


the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period.
Type Words
Type of merit, meritoriousness, deservingness

Examples of desert

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Others stand alone, like those odd, irresistible Joshua Trees out in the desert.
From the latimes.com
Its towns and cities are relatively few, scattered across miles of empty desert.
From the online.wsj.com
Once confirmed, they would be transferred in buses to the Egyptian Sinai desert.
From the kentucky.com
Journey's end this day was at the Sossusvlei Lodge in the southern Namib desert.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The rounds sent the rebels running for cover across a sand-swept desert highway.
From the sacbee.com
He wanders to a town called Dirt, populated by a wonderment of desert creatures.
From the washingtonpost.com
A camel herder crossing the desert in the winter in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.
From the washingtonpost.com
The project supplied water from desert aquifers to Libya's major coastal cities.
From the dailyadvertiser.com.au
I listen to the sounds of silence and feel the magic and mystique of the desert.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • Arid land with little or no vegetation
  • Abandon: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
  • Defect: desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
  • Leave behind; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
  • (deserts) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved
  • A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. ...
  • Desert is an electronic and house music duo from Liverpool, England. Members of the outfit are the producers Paul Kane and Paul Pringle. In 2001 they hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Lettin' Ya Mind Go". They also reached number 74 in the UK Singles Chart. ...
  • In Western culture dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food. The word comes from the French language as dessert and this from Old French desservir, "to clear the table" and "to serve. ...
  • Du00E9sert is a novel written by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clu00E9zio, considered to be one of his breakthrough novels. It won the Acadu00E9mie franu00E7aise's Grand Prix Paul Morand in 1980.