desert island

noun

1. a small remote tropical island

Example Sentences

Her choice for Desert Island Discs ranged from “The Drinking Song” by Verdi to “Ra Ra Rasputin” by Boney M.

From The Daily Beast

Some of their posts read like messages in a bottle sent from some unimaginable desert island.

From The Daily Beast

Haley: If you could send someone—anyone—to that proverbial desert island, who would it be?

From The Daily Beast

Quincy Jones has said that if he were forced to pick music to take to a desert island, these three recordings would lead his list.

From The Daily Beast

If I were on a desert island I would love to have a scuba diving kit.

From The Daily Beast

The author of the life of St. Francis Xavier, asserts, that "by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island."

From Project Gutenberg

Now from the desert island of Butterine (just under the cliff) to the ridge was maybe as much as a half a mile.

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He went up aloft to watch for a desert island, where pirate gold was hidden.

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They were marooned on a desert island with practically nothing to eat and nothing but brackish swamp water to drink.

From Project Gutenberg

I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that next morning she would carry me with her out of this desert island.

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