desert island
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The title character was left on a desert island when the rest of the Greeks went off to sack Troy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
When we play the desert island game, we do it with the tacit acknowledgement that its proposed diversions are impractical.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026
LuPone, whose native gifts and career trajectory destined her for triumph, would be my desert island Rose, if I could bring just one.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025
Listen to the harrowing brays of the donkey in Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” a satire in which the obnoxious, self-serving guests of a luxury cruise end up stranded on a desert island.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023
At last, right in the middle of a shipwreck on a desert island, April noticed the time and said she’d have to go home so she’d be there when Caroline got back from work.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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