desert

County sheriff’s deputies converged on the scene and were visible amid a desert landscape and some ramshackle buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Such calls are routine in Pima County, a mecca for desert hikers who sometimes get lost—as well as for retirees, some with failing memories who wander from home and lose their way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

The Nazca Lines are a group of geoglyphs etched into the desert sands that date back to between 500 BC and 500 AD.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Jumoke can be seen kneeling in front of a younger version of her daughter in the desert, telling her: "You must not be afraid."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Next to that picture was one of Uncle Jet posing in the middle of a desert just as sunny and dry as the one outside.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Important fossil sites do not always require travel to distant deserts or remote continents.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

High pressure over Arizona will expand west through the weekend, reaching California’s interior deserts and potentially as far west as the coast, according to the National Weather Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

On Sundays, however, iron curtains roll shut, turning city centers into eerie, echoey deserts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

They then used machine-learning models that incorporated environmental data from deserts, tundra, forests, and other ecosystems to predict fungal network density in regions where direct measurements were unavailable.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

“Get into trouble. Get out of trouble again. Visit jungles and volcanoes and deserts and islands. And people. I want to meet an awful lot of people.”

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

To test the concept, Srinivasan headed to a nearly deserted artificial island about 100 miles from the equator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Returning to her home briefly on Sunday to get medicine, she said the streets were deserted and her house had been covered in ash.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Skies over Le Porge turned orange as smoke rose from charred and crackling pine trees, while helicopters made repeated runs over deserted neighbourhoods.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Let’s not even talk about the “three-hour tour” that left Gilligan and friends stranded on a deserted island for 98 episodes, or how Jack Dawson’s voyage ended aboard 1997’s “Titanic.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

With a quick glance to make sure the bridge, path, and shore were still deserted, he switched the light on again and angled it against the bank.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

It could have meant one of the last major studios - behind titles last year such as Ryan Coogler's Sinners, The Minecraft Movie and One Battle After Another - deserting the cinema.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

But a major reason for voters deserting the party in past elections was inflation, an unwelcome phenomenon for households after several decades of stable or falling prices.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

But the Syrian army collapsed with surprising ease, with many troops deserting the battlefield, in the face of the HTS rebels’ onslaught.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024

He treats his troops abominably, whether he’s deserting them in Egypt, condemning them to a death march through a Russian winter or sending them into the hopeless onslaught of Waterloo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

He wants me to choose between taking the Trials and deserting.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir