desert
Example Sentences
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But Price's game just deserted him in the end when just one more double would have seen him finish off an otherwise dominant display.
From BBC
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: There’s a new music festival coming to the desert.
From Los Angeles Times
A house in Nollie’s block mysteriously deserted, grass growing in the rose garden.
From Literature
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But all the same, the place did look strangely deserted.
From Literature
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"People were not going out on campus, it looked deserted," she said.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.