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desert island

noun

  1. a small remote tropical island
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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